<sod>'''Agop Vartovyan''' ({{lang-hy|Հակոբ Վարդովյան}}), better known as '''Güllü Agop''' ({{lang-hy|Գյուլլու Հակոբ}}), (took later the name '''Yakub'''), (1840, [[Constantinople]] - 1902, Constantinople) was an [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|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 [[İstanbul City Theatres]] (''İstanbul Şehir Tiyatroları''). 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 founder of modern Turkish Theatre.<eod>
<sod>'''Agop Vartovyan''' ({{lang-hy|Հակոբ Վարդովյան}}), better known as '''Güllü Agop''' ({{lang-hy|Գյուլլու Հակոբ}}), (took later the name '''Yakub'''), (1840 in [[Constantinople]] - 1902 in Constantinople) was an [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|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 [[İstanbul City Theatres]] (''İstanbul Şehir Tiyatroları''). 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 founder of modern Turkish Theatre.<eod>