Background
Zaven Biberyan was born in Cengelkoy, a district of Istanbul in 1921.
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Buyuk buzdolabinin onunde genc bir kiz duruyordu. Boyu asagi yukari bir yetmis besti, dumduz mokasenlere ragmen. Acik pembe organzeden elbisesi belden dizkapaklarina kadar konik iniyordu. Bacaklari birer saheserdi. Altin rengi parlak saclarinin ortasinda dunyanin en nazik, sevimli cehresi gulumsuyordu. Seventeen'in kapagindan inme bir resimdi ve herkes bu resmi seyrediyordu. Kiz ise camin arkasindan istedigi pastalari gosteriyordu. Bir kelime bile Turkce bilmiyordu. Kovboy filmlerinden "yap, okay" gibi kelimeler belleyenler, kizin etrafinda purtelas tercuman kesilmislerdi. Seventeen'in kapak resmi, istediklerini kolayca aldi, aldanmadan parasini odedi, ifadesi imkansiz bir gulumseyisle, omrunde hicbir musteriden bir tesekkur ifadesi duymamis ciraga "Thank you." dedi, gidip kaldirimin kenarinda bekleyen spor arabaya bindi, calistirdi. Butun bakislar onu ugurladi. Agir sesizlik icinde, birisi mirildandi. "Yeni gelen Amerikalilar..." "Diplomatin kizi degil mi?" "Diplomat mi, Marshall teknisyeni mi?" "Nato albayi imis dediler."
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Zaven Biberyan was born in Cengelkoy, a district of Istanbul in 1921.
He first attended the local Aramyan-Uncuyan Armenian school and later he attended Saint Josephs High School. He then attended the academy of Commercial Sciences in Istanbul.
Zaven Biberyan has always wrote in Armenian. When Biberyan was conscripted to the Turkish Army in 1941, he met with Jamanak chief editor Ara Kocunyan. Kocunyan was impressed by Biberyans Armenian linguistic skills and encouraged him to write an article for Jamanak.
This article caused a great tumult among the Armenian community and the series of his articles were suspended.
He later wrote for Armenian newspapers such as Nor Or (New Day) and Nor Lur (New News). He also served for the Ararat editorial board in Aleppo and Paris.
He then worked for the Ottoman Bank. Zaven Biberyan contracted ulcer disease in 1984 and died October 4.
He is buried in Sisli Armenian Cemetery.
During the Workers Party of Turkey 1965 general elections, Zaven Biberyan was selected as a would-be parliamentary candidate. However, he was not elected. In 1968 he then served as an assistant to the vice president of the Municipal Assembly.
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After receiving a lot of pressure for some of his socialist oriented articles, Zaven Biberyan went to Beirut Lebanon in 1949 and continued to be a writer for a Zartonk.