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Hrant Dink - In pursuit of justice

panorama.am01/19th/2019, 2:42

Hrant Dink - In pursuit of justice

"There are Turks who don't admit that their ancestors committed genocide. If you look at it though, they seem to be nice people... So why don't they admit it? Because they think that genocide is a bad thing which they would never want to commit, and because they can't believe their ancestors would do such a thing either."

January 19 marks the 12th anniversary of prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist, the editor-in-chief of Istanbul-based Agos newspaper Hrant Dink.

Dink was one of Turkey's most prominent Armenian voices. Dink was critical of Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide in the beginning of the 20th century. The journalist was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkish nation and received numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists after a series of articles he wrote on Armenian identity. As a result of lawsuit filed in charge of “insulting and defaming Turkishness” Dink was sentenced six months in prison by the criminal court in 2005. Two years later he lost his life in a gun attack on his exit from Agos newspaper murdered by 17-year-old nationalist Ogun Samast. More than 100,000 people marched in the funeral procession for Dink. "We are all Armenians," chanted mourners in an extraordinary show of affection for the journalist.

Hrant Dink was born in Malatya on September 15, 1954, the eldest of three sons to Sarkis Dink - one of the survivors of the Armenian Geocide. He received his primary education at the Protestant Armenian Primary School and his secondary education at the Surb Hac Armenian High School, working as a tutor at the same time

Dink was one of the founders of Agos weekly, the only newspaper in Turkey published in Armenian and Turkish. The news...

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