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HRANT DINK'S FRIENDS TO HOLD MEMORIAL EVENING IN ISTANBUL
ARMENPRESS
JANUARY 16, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS: Hrant Dink's artist friends and
relatives have planned to hold a memorial evening January 20 in
Istanbul. The evening will be conducted in GHETTO hall, Istanbul,
at 22:30 pm, Armenpress reports citing CNNTurk.
The profit of the soiree will be donated to Hrant Dink Foundation.
Hrant Dink was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, editor,
journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual
Turkish-Armenian newspaper Akos, Dink was a prominent member of
the Armenian minority inTurkey. Dink was best known for advocating
Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights
in Turkey; he was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the
Armenian Genocide, and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for
its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for
denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from
Turkish nationalists.
Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007, by Ogun
Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly after
the premiere of the genocide documentary Screamers, in which he is
interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915
and the case against him under article 301.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMENPRESS
JANUARY 16, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS: Hrant Dink's artist friends and
relatives have planned to hold a memorial evening January 20 in
Istanbul. The evening will be conducted in GHETTO hall, Istanbul,
at 22:30 pm, Armenpress reports citing CNNTurk.
The profit of the soiree will be donated to Hrant Dink Foundation.
Hrant Dink was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, editor,
journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual
Turkish-Armenian newspaper Akos, Dink was a prominent member of
the Armenian minority inTurkey. Dink was best known for advocating
Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights
in Turkey; he was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the
Armenian Genocide, and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for
its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for
denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from
Turkish nationalists.
Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007, by Ogun
Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly after
the premiere of the genocide documentary Screamers, in which he is
interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915
and the case against him under article 301.
From: Baghdasarian