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STREET IN LYON NAMED AFTER HRANT DINK 22-01-2008
ArmRadio.am
22-01-2008
On January 19, first anniversary of assassination of the Armenian
Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, the Mayor of the Lyon, Mr. Gerard
Collomb, inaugurated the street after Hrant Dink, in homage to the
courage of this man of peace, independent correspondent Jean Eckian
reports from France.
Joined together near Le Progres newspaper, several personalities
followed one another at the microphone to evoke the course of the
journalist and read a letter of thanks of AGOS.
Pasteur Rene Leonian, a friend of the Dink family who had specially
come from Armenia, conveyed the thanks of Rakel Dink. Among the guests
was the Consul General of Turkey, Ismail Hakka Musa, surrounded with
body guards, precipitately left the meeting after having criticized
certain speakers who referred to the "events" of 1915.
ArmRadio.am
22-01-2008
On January 19, first anniversary of assassination of the Armenian
Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, the Mayor of the Lyon, Mr. Gerard
Collomb, inaugurated the street after Hrant Dink, in homage to the
courage of this man of peace, independent correspondent Jean Eckian
reports from France.
Joined together near Le Progres newspaper, several personalities
followed one another at the microphone to evoke the course of the
journalist and read a letter of thanks of AGOS.
Pasteur Rene Leonian, a friend of the Dink family who had specially
come from Armenia, conveyed the thanks of Rakel Dink. Among the guests
was the Consul General of Turkey, Ismail Hakka Musa, surrounded with
body guards, precipitately left the meeting after having criticized
certain speakers who referred to the "events" of 1915.