NEW PLATFORM: Digital Map Traces Turkey’s Minorities’ Cultural Heritage

[ENCATC Understanding Heritage]

“Türkiye Kültürel Varlıkları Haritası” (Turkey’s Map of Cultural Heritages) is a new digital platform that brings together Armenian, Greek, Jewish and Syriac cultural heritages, says a Daily Sabah report. Still in progress, the map records information on churches, schools, monasteries, cemeteries, synagogues and hospitals. Gathered from primary and secondary sources, the map shows all recorded cultural heritage sites in each Turkish city. Users can find information in Turkish or English. They can click each city to see which neighborhood has or used to have a Greek school or a Jewish cemetery, for instance. To improve the digital platform, the research team will make field visits in the villages or areas on the list. Interviews with local residents will help them to write more information about each historic building or site.

Access the digital platform here: http://turkiyekulturvarliklari.hrantdink.org/en/#sthash.oi6Cmncr.dpuf