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NAOMI KLEIN TO DELIVER HRANT DINK MEMORIAL LECTURE IN ISTANBUL
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.01.2010 18:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein will
deliver the 2010 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Freedom of Expression
and Human Rights at Bogazici University in Istanbul on Jan. 25.
The lecture, titled ~SThe Power of Being Consistent: Insisting on
Palestinian Humanity in the Western Media,~T will start at 3 p.m. at
the Albert Long Hall (BTS), South Campus.
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, political figure and author
of numerous books which have become best-sellers. She also writes a
regular column for the Nation and the Guardian.
In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper~Rs Magazine won the James
Aranson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
Hrant Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007 near his office
in Istanbul. Almost two years after his death, the murderers were
convicted. But new details are still being disclosed, particularly,
concerning Ergenekon terrorist organization~Rs complicity in the crime.
Dink~Rs murderer Ogun Samast (18) was recognized of full legal age at
the time of committing the crime. Court procedures revealed a third
person~Rs involvement in the affair. Following Dink~Rs murder, Noble
Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk left Turkey for fear of being subjected
to physical violence.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.01.2010 18:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein will
deliver the 2010 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Freedom of Expression
and Human Rights at Bogazici University in Istanbul on Jan. 25.
The lecture, titled ~SThe Power of Being Consistent: Insisting on
Palestinian Humanity in the Western Media,~T will start at 3 p.m. at
the Albert Long Hall (BTS), South Campus.
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, political figure and author
of numerous books which have become best-sellers. She also writes a
regular column for the Nation and the Guardian.
In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper~Rs Magazine won the James
Aranson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
Hrant Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007 near his office
in Istanbul. Almost two years after his death, the murderers were
convicted. But new details are still being disclosed, particularly,
concerning Ergenekon terrorist organization~Rs complicity in the crime.
Dink~Rs murderer Ogun Samast (18) was recognized of full legal age at
the time of committing the crime. Court procedures revealed a third
person~Rs involvement in the affair. Following Dink~Rs murder, Noble
Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk left Turkey for fear of being subjected
to physical violence.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress