 Up to that point, he had contributed occasional articles and book reviews to local Armenian language newspapers and corrections and letters to the editor to the national dailies.He soon became well known for his editorials in "Agos" and also wrote columns in the national dailies "Zaman" and "BirGün".Up to the founding of "Agos", the Armenian community had two main newspapers, "Marmara" and "Jamanak", both published only in Armenian.