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Güllü Agop
Hagop Vartovyan (), better known as Güllü Agop (), (took later the name Yakub), (1840 in Constantinople – 1902 in Constantinople) was an Ottoman Armenian theatre director as well as an occasional actor. He is widely credited with having laid the bases for Turkey's modern and nationally renowned performing arts institution that became the Istanbul City Theatres (). In his qualities of organizer, sponsor and figure of support for writers and spectators, Güllü Agop is one of the 19th century pioneers of
the Turkish Theatre art as a whole. He was accepted as the founder of the modern Turkish Theatre.
Biography.
Vartovyan was born in 1840 in Istanbul with the name Agop Vartovyan to Armenian parents. "Güllü Agop" (literally "Jacob the Rosy") was the name under which he had come to be known in the world of theatre. He converted to Islam in his forties and took the name "Yakub". He is the father of Necip Yakup Aşkın, considered as one of the most prominent