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TURKEY MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF JOURNALIST SLAYING
International Herald Tribune
Jan 19 2009
France
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Thousands of people marked the second anniversary
of the killing of a campaigning Turkish Armenian journalist by placing
red carnations on the spot where he was shot dead.
Newspaper Editor Hrant Dink was shot outside his offices on Jan. 19,
2007, in an alleged nationalist killing because he had campaigned for
better relations between Turkey and Armenia. Dink had been prosecuted
in Turkey several years before his death for describing the early
20th-century mass killings of Armenians as genocide.
His killing led to international condemnation and debate within Turkey
about free speech. The alleged gunman and several others have gone
on trial over his death.
International Herald Tribune
Jan 19 2009
France
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Thousands of people marked the second anniversary
of the killing of a campaigning Turkish Armenian journalist by placing
red carnations on the spot where he was shot dead.
Newspaper Editor Hrant Dink was shot outside his offices on Jan. 19,
2007, in an alleged nationalist killing because he had campaigned for
better relations between Turkey and Armenia. Dink had been prosecuted
in Turkey several years before his death for describing the early
20th-century mass killings of Armenians as genocide.
His killing led to international condemnation and debate within Turkey
about free speech. The alleged gunman and several others have gone
on trial over his death.