The Fund for the Support of Historical Research, created with the kind assistance of Dr. Alper Öktem in 2010 aimed at promoting and supporting research geared towards revealing scrupulous acts of conscience during the 1915 events, finding people who acted as a role model during that era and thus reflecting a facet of history that has not been adequately researched. The Fund was extended from 2013 on with the generous contribution of İbrahim Betil and its name has been updated to 'History and Memory Research Fund.' In addition to its initial scope, the fund will also support research on the traces of the events of 1915 and their memory on subsequent generations and the different ways of remembering.

This year’s Support Fund for Research in History Studies, whose jury consists of Prof. Dr. Taner Akçam (Clark University), Prof. Boğos Levon Zekiyan'ın (Venice Ca' Foscari University), Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University), Prof. Raymond Kévorkian (Paris 8 University), Prof. Hans-Lukas Kieser (Zürich University), Prof. Dr. Arus Yumul (Bilgi University) and Assoc. Dr. Ayşe Gül Altınay (Sabancı University). The awardees and their projects are:

• Adnan Çelik and Namık Kemal Dinç, 'Yüzyıllık Ah, Kürtlerin 1915 Ermeni Soykırımı'na Dair Sözlü Tarih Anlatılarında Sembolik Yüzleşme ve Vicdan Hikayeleri' (The Cry of a Century: Symbolic Stories of Conscience and Confrontation in Kurdish Oral History Narratives on 1915 Armenian Genocide)
• Arnaud Khayadjanian, The Righteous of the Armenian Genocide
• Öykü Gürpınar, 'Anadolu’nun Yitirilen Belleği: 1915’den Günümüze Erzincan’ın Pokr Armıdan (Küçük Armutlu) Köyü Üzerine Bir Monografi Çalışması' (The Lost Memory of Anatolia: A Monographic Study on Erzincan’s Pokr Armıdan (Küçük Armutlu) Village from 1915 to Present)
• Seher Şeylan, 'Konyalı Ermeniler' (Armenians of Konya)

ADNAN ÇELİK: Graduated from Dicle University Faculty of Education in 2004. He continued his graduate studies at Selçuk University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology with his thesis on Diyarbakır Gavur (Xançepek) neighborhood’s social transformation from multiculturalism to ghettoization. He worked as an assistant in Leyla Neyzi’s (Sabancı University) oral history project 'Türkiyeli Gençler Anlatıyor: Sözlü Tarihin Geçmişle Yüzleşme, Toplumsal Uzlaşma ve Demokratikleşmeye Katkısı' (2011-2012) in the field studies of Diyarbakır and Muğla. Since 2013, he is working as a researcher in İsmail Beşikçi Foundation’s oral history Project, '1915, Diyarbekir, Kürtler' and also working towards his PhD degree in Anthropology at Paris EHESS with his thesis '1990’lar Kürdistan’ında Devlet Şiddeti ve İntra-Kürt Çatışmalarının Sosyo-Antropolojik Boyutları.'

NAMIK KEMAL DİNÇ: Graduated from Istanbul University Department of History in 2008. He is currently working as an independent researcher on the history of Kurds. His main interests are Kurdish history in 19^th and 20^th centuries, settlement policies of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic, Dersim and Alevism. He was involved in the making of four boks, which he co-signed with 'Kürdoloji Çalışmaları Grubu.' He also participated in an oral history study of 'İstanbul Göç Edenlerle Yardımlaşma ve Kültür Derneği' (Göç-Der) about the Kurds who came to Istanbul during 1990 because of 'Forced Kurdish Migration.' He edited the book Göç Hikayeleri which contains the narratives of this study. Currently, he is producing a TV Show on history and working as a researcher.

ARNAUD KHAYADJANIAN: A writer and director graduate from the University of Paris Sorbonne, Arnaud Khayadjanian directed Les Horizons Perdus in 2012, a fiction short film. He is currently working on Stony Paths, a documentary feature film in collaboration with Adalios. The documentary is inspired by the story of his Armenian great-grandparents. Arnaud Khayadjanian also preparing the fiction short film Arshak. He also directs video clips for new music artists. Themes of identity, landscape and family are the heart of his work influenced by Atom Egoyan, James Gray and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

ÖYKÜ GÜRPINAR: Graduated from Istanbul Technical University Department of Urban Planning and completed her MA in Mimar Sinan University Department of Sociology. Within the framework of her thesis, which focused on the experiences of an Armenian family from 1915 to present, she studied the experience of being an Armenian in Turkey. Besides, she worked as a project assistant for the scientific research project 'Türkiye’nin Etnik Coğrafyası', conducted by Assoc. Prof. Şükrü Aslan and Assoc. Prof. Sibel Yardımcı.

SEHER ŞEYLAN: She graduated from İstanbul Kültür University Department of English Language and Literature and continued to earn a MA degree at the same university with her thesis on media literacy. Currently, she is a PhD student at Marmara University Department of Radio, Television and Cinema. She is currently working on her thesis on diasporic cinema, documentaries, identity and representation.