The last Armenian - In Turkey - Trailer

This is a promotional clip for The last Armenian, the fourth episode of the series In Turkey, made by Bram Vermeulen.
In this seven-part series Bram Vermeulen travels through Turkey - From Istanbul to the sparsely populated mountains in the east; from the closed borders of Armenia to the open southern borders shared with neighboring Arab countries - observing the rapid changes in a country that has a renewed fresh confidence.

In Turkey, was awarded the Special Award Discourse and Politics at the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011 in Vienna.

EPISODE 4: The last Armenian
The borders are opened with the Arab world. But the border with the neighboring Christian Armenia remains closed . A trip to the snowy eastern Turkey, where the inhabitants are still trapped in the unspeakable history from 1915, when hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians, but also Turkish Muslims were murdered and driven out. The closed border changed the town of Kars into a cul-de-sac: a forgotten area. But the debate has moved on, and the farther Bram goes along the border with Armenia, the more the stories about the past come loose. So Bram goes in search of the last eyewitness, an Armenian man of more than a hundred years old who survived 1915 and still lives among the Turks, on top of a mountain.


© VPRO First publication: 17 april 2011


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Produced by VPRO, The Netherlands

Presentation: Bram Vermeulen

Direction/Editor in Chief: Stefanie de Brouwer, Doke Romeijn

Camera: Erik van Empel, Jackó van 't Hof

Sound: Bert van den Dungen, Rik Meier

Research: Yilmaz Akinci, Mahmut Kaya, Emran
Küçük, Somnur Vardar

Production: Judith van den Berg

Editing: Matthieu Hes en Obbe Verwer

Colour correction: Gerhard van der Beek

Sound Mix: Rob Dul

Music: Wouter van Bemmel

translation: Emran Küçük, Halil Ozpamuk,
Fatih Yüksel, Nian Bakal, Beriwan Khalil

Special thanks to: Alex Booy, Huibert Boon

English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.