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Kulis Periodicals


Kulis’s story began at Gül Han [Building] on Billur Street, Galata in 1946. Joining forces with Zareh Arşag and Nazaret Donikyan, Ayvaz wanted to publish a culture and arts magazine. The first issue of Kulis was printed in 500 copies of 16 pages on wood-containing paper with its cover designed by Berc Gürten, an artist of Babıali of the time. Ayvaz started publishing the magazine alone after the first year and in the years to come, he worked meticulously, managing to increase the circulation up to 2,500 and founding the print shopbearing the same name with the magazine.

Taking the magazine to an international level thanks to his travels to Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece and Egypt in 1984, Ayvaz reached readers around the world with culture and arts news he gathered from Turkey and other countries thereby ensuring a strong interaction between Armenian artists and art enthusiasts.

Published uninterruptedly between 1946–1996, Kulis proved to be a rare achievement in culture and arts publishing in the world and inspired independent publishers. Reaching thousands of readers thanks to its content as well as the famous editors and writers it has brought together, Kulis holds a unique place in the history of 20th-century Armenian written culture of Istanbul and constitutes a vast culture and arts archive with its 1104-issue carrying the five-decade memory of theater in Turkey.

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