Oggi è morto lo scrittore e il centenario scrittore turco e centenario Haddeciyan.

Editor-in-Chief and lead columnist of *Marmara* newspaper, Rober Haddeciyan, passed away on the morning of September 6. Just three months later, in January 2026, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Since 1967, Haddeciyan had been directing *Marmara* and was also a master novelist and short story writer producing works in Armenian. A funeral service will be held for Haddeciyan on Wednesday, September 10, at 1:00 p.m. in the Üç Horan Church in Beyoğlu.

In addition to his journalism, Rober Haddeciyan was one of the most important and prolific authors of Armenian literature. He was born on January 26, 1926, in Bakırköy, Istanbul. After his family moved to Kurtuluş, he enrolled in the Pangaltı Mkhitaryan Armenian School, where he studied through high school. After graduating in 1944, he attended Istanbul University’s Department of Physics and Mathematics for a year before transferring to the Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy and Psychology, from which he graduated in 1950. After completing his military service as a reserve officer in Ankara and Ağrı, he married Suzan Tamikyan and began his professional life as a representative of a major textile company.

Even during his school years, Haddeciyan’s literary talent attracted attention. Encouraged by his teachers, in 1946 he sent his short story *Paraskhal* [Slip of the Tongue] to the monthly magazine *Aniv* [The Wheel]. From that point on, he dedicated himself entirely to Armenian literature, preparing the literary pages of the daily Armenian newspaper *Marmara* alongside Zahrad, Zareh Khrakhuni, and Varujan Acemyan. Founded in 1940 by Suren Şamlıyan, *Marmara* came fully under Haddeciyan’s management in 1967, when he assumed both editorial and overall responsibility. Along with writing opinion columns on daily social issues, he also worked on translations. At the time Haddeciyan took over, *Marmara* was being managed by Şamlıyan’s daughter and son-in-law, Seta and Bedros Zobyan. In 1976, *Marmara* took an important step forward by transitioning to offset printing.

In 1983, his most important work, *Arasdağı* [Ceiling], was published. *Vasdag* [Profit] in 1976 and *Arasdağı* in 1983 were both awarded the first prize of the Alek Manukyan Foundation Literature Fund, based in the United States.

Thanks to the work of literary scholar Suren Tanielyan, he also became widely known in Armenia.

In 2001, Haddeciyan was accepted as a member of the Union of Journalists of Armenia, and throughout his career he received numerous awards, including the Gold Medal of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, the Movses Khorenatsi Medal of the Republic of Armenia, the Gold Medal of Yerevan State University, the Golden Pen Award of the Union of Journalists of Armenia, the S. Mesrob Mashtots Award, and the Surp Sahak Surp Mesrob Medal.

A national funeral service will be held for Haddeciyan on Wednesday, September 10, at 1:00 p.m. in the Üç Horan Church in Beyoğlu.

Rober Haddeciyan lost his wife, Suzan Haddeciyan, in 2024, and in recent times the newspaper had been run by their sons, Ari and Ayk Haddeciyan.

The newspaper, in announcing the news, stated:

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As *Agos*, we extend our condolences to Haddeciyan and the *Marmara* family.

(Biography: Aras Publishing, *Agos*)