{{Short description|Armenian writer and playwright (1926–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Rober Haddeciyan | native_name = Ռոպէր Հատտէճեան | native_name_lang = hy | image = Rober Haddeciyan (cropped).jpg | caption = | birth_name = Rober Haddedjian | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|1|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Istanbul, Turkey | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|9|6|1926|1|26|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Writer|playwright|editor{{nbh}}in{{nbh}}chief}} | notable_works = ''Arasdagh'' (Ceiling) }}
'''Rober Haddeciyan''' (also spelled and pronounced as '''Haddedjian''') ({{langx|hy|Ռոպէր Հատտէճեան}}; 26 January 1926 – 6 September 2025), also known as '''Rober Haddeler''', was a Turkish-Armenian writer, playwright and editor-in-chief of ''Marmara'', an Armenian-language daily newspaper from 1967 until his death.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rising from the Ruins|url=http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3512&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=US&pageno=6|access-date=25 December 2012}}</ref>
''Marmara'' (also known as ''Nor Marmara'') is published six times a week (daily except Sundays). Circulation is reported at 2,200 per issue.<ref name="Press Reference - Turkey">{{cite web|title=Press Reference|url=http://www.pressreference.com/Sw-Ur/Turkey.html|access-date=7 October 2011}}</ref>
==Life and career== Rober Haddeciyan was born on 26 January 1926 in the district of Bakırköy in Istanbul, Turkey, to Avedis Haddeciyan and Siranush.<ref name=Memoirs>{{cite book|last=Haddedjian|first=Rober|title=Kurtulushi Boghoda|year=2002|publisher=Marmara Ofset|location=Istanbul|pages=223|edition=1|language=Armenian}}</ref><ref name="Biography by Toros Toranian">{{cite book|last=Toranian|first=Toros|title=Amboghjkagan Gragete (The Complete Man of Letters)|year=2002|publisher=Cilician Bookstore & Publishing House|location=Aleppo|pages=107|language=Armenian}}</ref> He graduated from the Pangaltı Armenian Mkhitarist High School in 1944 and is an Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Department of Philosophy graduate.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Demir|first=Gul|title=Minority newspapers in Turkey - Nor Marmara|journal=Turkish Daily News|date=1 June 2004}}</ref> Haddeciyan, who was already working for ''Marmara'' as a journalist, became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in 1967. His columns in ''Nor Marmara'' were translated into Turkish by his daughter-in-law Karolin Haddeler and published in the weekly Turkish supplement. He published 50 to 60 books. One of his most famous books is his novel ''Arasdagh'' ({{lang|ar|Առաստաղ}}, ''Ceiling''), which has also been published in Turkish under the title ''Tavan''.<ref name=Tavan>{{cite book|last=Haddeciyan|first=Rober|title=Tavan|year=1997|publisher=Telos|location=Istanbul|isbn=975-545-090-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zBwAAAACAAJ}}</ref>
Haddeciyan died on 6 September 2025, at the age of 99.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 June 2025 |title=Türkiye Ermeni basını ve edebiyatında bir çağ kapandı: Rober Haddeciyan hayata veda etti |url=https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/35654/turkiye-ermeni-basini-ve-edebiyatinda-bir-cag-kapandi-rober-haddeciyan-hayata-veda-etti |access-date=6 September 2025 |website=Agos |language=tr}}</ref>
==Awards== In 2011, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Armenia's Independence, President Serzh Sargsyan awarded Haddeciyan the Mesrob Mashdots Medal for his contributions to Armenian literature, theater, and journalism.<ref>{{cite web|title=President Serzh Sargsyan to head award giving ceremony|url=http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2011/09/17/serzh-sargsyan-congrets/|work=Armenian News|publisher=Panorama.am|access-date=8 October 2011|date=17 September 2011}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== * [http://www.normarmara.com/ Marmara official website] * {{YouTube|1Pd4EDQYmXs|Rober Haddeciyan gives an introduction of the Marmara newspaper}} (In Armenian). * {{IMDb name| 4271039}}
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