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Sarkis Karamanik
İstanbul Kadıköy High School Exhibition Area A
İstanbul is an ever-changing huge metropolis in your daily life. It has been changing every day, leading us to long for the past. Indeed, we do not have a single day without big skyscrapers and gigantic buildings built upon us. Even though it is called modernization or new urbanization, it is the result of the rental war alienating human to human and human to nature, leaving them breathless and in fact damaging all where there is no winner. Actually, the remaining very small woodland and green areas, gardens are gradually disappearing. Today's Kadıköy is still trying to protect itself though slightly and to keep the old alive. The previous view of this old city is commemorated by the postcards of the past. Here is the beautiful city of our beautiful Istanbul once upon a time…
Sarkis Karamanik, who came from France and has a collection of 6,000 postcards, attracted great attention.
For the first time this year, the International Kadıköy Festival is hosting the Line and Booksellers Days together. Art and Book Book Days, which will take place at Istanbul Kadıköy High School and Kadıköy Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, between 22-27 August 2019, will host literary, history, cultural conversations and exhibitions. He has collected 6,000 postcards in 25 years. Postcard collector Sarkis Karamanik came to Kadıköy from France to exhibit his postcards. Karamanik, who has been collecting postcards since 1994, has 6,000 postcards. Sarkis Karamanik, who has nearly 6,000 postcards, said, “I can say it in almost every corner of Istanbul. There are also other regions of Turkey. I moved to France in 1989 and started in 1994. Postcards have been energy and therapy for me. I recommend collecting postcards to everyone. I was actually collecting postcards for painting. One day, I came across the Maiden's Tower postcard among the postcards. It was the first start,” he said.