HRANT DINK BECOMES 1,500,001 VICTIM OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Hrant Dink became the 1,500,001st victim of the Armenian genocide yesterday. An educated and generous journalist and academic - editor of the weekly Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos - he tried to create a dialogue between the two nations to reach a common narrative of the 20th century's first holocaust. And he paid the price: two bullets shot into his head and two into his body by an assassin in the streets of Istanbul yesterday afternoon.
It was not only a frightful blow to Turkey's surviving Armenian community but a shattering reversal to Turkey's hope of joining the European Union, a visionary proposal already endangered by the country's broken relations with Cyprus and its refusal to acknowledge the genocide for what it was: the deliberate mass killing of an entire race of Christian people - 1,500,000 in all - by the country's Ottoman Turkish government in 1915. Winston Churchill was among the first to call it a holocaust but to this day, the Turkish authorities deny such a definition, ignoring documents which Turkey's own historians have unearthed to prove the government's genocidal intent. The 53-year-old journalist, who had two children, was murdered at the door of his newspaper. Just over a year ago, he was convicted under Turkey's notorious law 301 of "anti-Turkishness", a charge he strenuously denied even after he received a six-month suspended sentence from an Istanbul court. The EU has demanded that Turkey repeal the law under which the country also tried to imprison Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. At the time of his trial, Dink appeared on Turkish television in tears. "I'm living together with Turks in this country," he said then. "And I'm in complete solidarity with them. I don't think I could live with an identity of having insulted them in this country." It is a stunning irony that Dink had accused his fellow Armenians in an article of allowing their enmity towards the Turks for the genocide to have a "poisoning effect on your blood" - and that the court took the article out of context and claimed he was referring to Turkish blood as poisonous. Dink told news agency reporters in 2005 that his case had arisen from a question on what he felt when, at primary school, he had to take a traditional Turkish oath: "I am a Turk, I am honest, I am hard-working." In his defence, Dink said: "I said that I was a Turkish citizen but an Armenian and that even though I was honest and hard-working, I was not a Turk, I was an Armenian." He did not like a line in the Turkish national anthem that refers to "my heroic race". He did not like singing that line, he said, "because I was against using the word 'race', which leads to discrimination".
Pamuk had earlier faced a court for talking about the 1915 genocide in a Swiss magazine. Leading Turkish publishers say that there is now an incendiary atmosphere in Turkey towards all writers who want to tell the truth about the genocide, when vast areas of Turkish Armenia were dispossessed of their Christian populations. Tens of thousands of men were massacred by Turkish gendarmerie - and by Kurds - while many Armenian women and children were raped and butchered in the northern Syrian deserts. The few survivors still alive have described the burning of living Armenian children on bonfires. In fact, a book published in Turkey and in the United States by Turkish scholar Tamer Akcam gives documentary details of the orders passed down from the Ottoman government in what was then Constantinople for the deliberate and industrialised killing of the Armenians. Thousands were also suffocated in underground caves in what were the world's first gas chambers. Adolf Hitler asked his generals in 1939: "Who remembers the Armenians?" And he went on to begin the Holocaust of the Jews of Poland. Whether the police discover that Dink's murderer is a Turkish nationalist - or even, though it might seem inconceivable, an Armenian nationalist outraged by his earlier remarks - will be an important proof of the country's willingness to confront its past.
HRANT DINK BECOMES 1,500,001 VICTIM OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Hrant Dink became the 1,500,001st victim of the Armenian genocide yesterday. An educated and generous journalist and academic - editor of the weekly Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos - he tried to create ...ST. ETCHMIADZIN OFFERS REQUIEM SERVICE FOR HRANT DINK
On Sunday, January 21, a solemn Repose of Souls service was offered in memory of slain journalist and human rights advocate Hrant Dink in the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin by His Holiness Karekin ...CATHOLICOS KAREKIN II CONDEMNS THE MURDER OF HRANT DINK
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, sent a letter today to His Beatitude Archbishop Mesrob Mutafian, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, on the tragic assassination ...MESROP MUTAFIAN, PATRIARCH OF ISTANBUL AND ALL TURKEY, CONDEMNS MURDER OF HRANT DINK
Patriarch of Istanbul and All Turkey Mesrop Mutafian expressed his indignation at the Jan 21 article of Tercuman newspaper (Turkey) alleging that the murderer of Hrant Dink Ogun Samast is of Armenian ...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CONDEMNS MURDER OF HRANT DINK
The current EU Presidency held by Germany expressed its "shock" over the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul Friday. "Hrant Dink was a courageous man whose ...TURKISH POLICE ARRESTS KILLER OF HRANT DINK
Yesterday, the Turkish authorities announced that they arrested the killer of Agos newspaper's Editor Hrant Dink. According to the Turkish Mass Media, it was a 17-years-old student of a Lyceum, Ogiun ...THE LONG SHADOW
Payam Akhavan, National Post, Monday, January 22, 2007The prominent journalist and voice of Turkey's dwindling Armenian minority, Hrant Dink, was shot dead on Jan. 19 as he left his office in Istanbul. Dink was editor of Agos, the sole Armenian newspaper ...FOR HRANT
by YAVUZ BAYDAR, http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazar.do?haberno=100535My grief is very, very deep. I have lost a wonderful friend and a courageous colleague. Could we see it coming? I remember an evening, months ago, in a restaurant. The infamous Pamuk trial had ended ...ARMENIA HOPES BREAKTHROUGH TO BE FIXED IN NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT PROCESS IN 2007
RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian is going to leave for Russia's capital city Moscow, today. He is to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov and discuss the Nagorno Karabakh conflict ...AZERI SNIPER KILLS ARMENIAN SOLDIER
RA Defense Ministry informed that an Azerbaijani sniper fatally wounded an Armenian serviceman today in the morning at a position on Armenian-Azerbaijani border near the town of Berd. The source stated ...ANOTHER ARMENIAN TEENAGER MURDERED IN MOSCOW
Artur Martirosian, 16 years old teen-ager, was killed in Moscow. According to the Russian Mass Media, his body with traces of knife wounds was found at the house 45 in Kastanayevskaya Street. The Russian ...GORAN LENMARKER TO VISIT ARMENIAN ON FEBRUARY 4-6
The chairman of OSCE Parliament Assembly, a reporter for Nagorno Karabakh, Goran Lenmarker, will pay a working visit to Armenia on February 4-6. According to the press service of RA National Assembly, ...INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA
Another international economic forum will be held in the resort city of Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, on February 16-19. The Center of International Integration Support, the Armenian Ministry of Trade and Economic ...
SCHIFF CONDEMNS THE MURDER OF JOURNALIST, HRANT DINK, IN TURKEY AND MOURNS HIS LOSS
Sean Oblack, Press Secretary, Congressman Adam Schiff (CA-29), 202-226-8348 direct, 202-225-3278 cellOSCE REPRESENTATIVE APPALLED BY MURDER OF TURKISH JOURNALIST HRANT DINK
EUROPEAN GREEN CARD RESEMBLING AMERICAN ONE LIKELY TO BE ISSUED SOON
By Aghavni Haroutiunian97% OF ARMENIAN AMERICANS OPPOSE HOAGLAND NOMINATION
MESROP MUTAFIAN, PATRIARCH OF ISTANBUL AND ALL TURKEY, CONDEMNS MURDER OF HRANT DINK
GERMANY DEMANDS PUNISHMENT FOR RECOGNITION OF HOLOCAUST
By Nana PetrosianINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CONDEMNS MURDER OF HRANT DINK
ARMENIA HOPES BREAKTHROUGH TO BE FIXED IN NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT PROCESS IN 2007
GERMAN COMMUNISTS PROTEST AGAINST DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
By Aghavni HaroutiunianHAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY RECEIVES A DELEGATION FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)
By Mira Yardemian,Public relations Director
- 1861 Birth of the Hungarian-Armenian linguist and philologist, Ghookass Badroopanyan.
- 1904 Birth of the Armenian-Italian physician, Professor, Michael Arlen, son of the famous doctor Yervand Arlen. Michael Arlen was a Full Member of the British Medical Association.
- 1921 The ceremonial opening of Yerevan's People's University. In 1923 it was renamed Yerevan State University.
- 1923 Birth of Karp Khachvankyan (actor) in Akhaltskha (Georgia). He was known as the "Prince of Laughter". He died in 1998.
- Դավադրություն Հայաստանի Դեմ
- Անկախության 20-ամյակ
- Մեր սիրելի երգերը
- Հանապազօրյա Նավթը և Հայաստանի Աշխարհաքաղաքական Դիրքը
- Armenians and 2011 OSCAR
- Turks and Germans: Partners in Crime and Allies in Court
- Վերջ ապագիտական դեզինֆորմացիային
- Իսկ ե՞րբ մենք պիտի ունենանք մե՛ր Վրեժի Կտակարանը
- 2011 թվականը
- L’ARMENIE OCCIDENTALE ET LE DROIT INTERNATIONAL, AUJOURD’HUI !
ARMENIAN NEWS
INTERACTIVE NEWS
INFORMATION
MY ARMTOWN
How to quit smoking?
How to write in Armenian on Windows XP?
All materials published on this website are taken from open sources and are copyrighted by their respective owners. You cannot reproduce or copy any materials published on armtown.com without written consent of original copyright holder. If you want to remove any material, please send us an email with proof of ownership/copyright and your material will be removed immediately. All materials published for information purposes only.