ASHQEN CONFESSES HE IS GYULLU HAKOB’S GRANDSON

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 01 2007

ISTANBUL, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. ARMENIANS TODAY. Yujel Ashqen,
ex-director of the University of Van, confessed that he is the
grandson of the famous actor Gyullu Hakob. This was reported by the
Turkish Radical.

As informs Istanbul’s Marmara, in October 2005 Yujel Ashqen was
attacked, the newspaper Vaget, in particalar, informed that Gjullu
Hakob is Ashqen’s grandfather, who is an apostate Armenian and that in
the University Ashqen erected monuments symbolizing Christianity. Then
Ashqen did not answer these hints. But now touching upon this
issue he affirmed that he is really the grandson of Gyullu Hakob or
Hakob Vardovian, which is his real name, and is proud of it as his
grandfather, adopting Islam and taking the name Yagub, founded the
Turkish theather.

Yujel Ashqen also added that though he is proud of being the grandson
of the great actor, he does not feel his Armenian origin, neither
did his father, Nejib Ashqen, who was a famous musician.