Minas A. Panosian

Independent, Activist, and NGO Manager in Brussels, Belgium

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Minas is an activist, NGO manager and politician since 2010, has been a director, project coordinator, board member, chairperson and founder. Panosian is also a member of some International level organizations like; European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), International AIDS Society (IAS), Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE).

In 2016, he founded the association of evidence based treatment activism named Red Ribbon Istanbul. Minas also represents community of PLHIV in Turkey and Kırmızı Kurdele Istanbul (Red Ribbon Istanbul) in the media and in high level national and international meetings like IAS2017, EACS2017, AIDS2018.

Turkey's first HIV positive story book, which he designed the project in 2014, was written by him together with the bestseller writers Bana Bi'Şey Olmaz (Nothing Happens to Me). In 2015, he took on the editorial role of 'Pride', the first fanzine of Turkey’s LGBTI+ pride march history.

In 2017, as guest-honor speaker he gaved opening speech for 10th anniversary of Antwerp (Belgium) Pride.

He take leadership to establish TKCAB (Turkish HIV Community Advisory Board) and wrote Turkey's very first World AIDS Day joint declaration, December 1st, 2017 and 2018, 2019

Panosian who studied acting (click for his acting website) has been involved in numerous TV series in Turkey, and has made DVD dubbing.

Commercial film that he has played, made special shows abroad. He performed on various premier nights. In 2006 he founded his own theater and performed bar performances. (His showreel)

He completed the NGO Management and Advocacy program at Bilgi University and currently studying on philosophy at Istanbul University.

In 2015, he became a deputy candidate from Turkey's only Liberal political party, LDP and elected as the VP in 2017.

In 2018 he has been a panelist at AIDS2018 Amsterdam with Dr. Anthony Fauci and graduate leadership program #IVLP in USA as a guest of the State Department.

In 2019 he gaved a speech at European Parliament about Turkey's HIV story as one of the most successful activist of The Republic of Turkey and has been guest for a full page interview with an HIV activist on Turkey's most reading daily newspaper for the first time of Turkey's 35 years HIV history.

Currently working as EuroPolitika Journal's Brussels represent