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Ismail BeÅ?ikçi from Turkey and `Memorial' from Russia receive 2012
International Hrant Dink Award
armradio.am
17.09.2012 15:59
Prominent scholar and sociologist Dr. Ismail BeÅ?ikçi has received the
fourth International Hrant Dink Award for his work on Kurds, the
foundation of the Republic of Turkey and the single-party era in
Turkey.
BeÅ?ikçi received the award for his tireless efforts towards a social
and political solution of the Kurdish Issue, refusing to be silenced
despite being subjected to threats and maltreatment throughout his
life. BeÅ?ikçi has continued to carry out research, write books and by
sustaining his struggle he has allowed society to confront its
problems, and made real transformation possible.
Thirty-two of the 36 books the scholar has written are currently
forbidden in Turkey. For many years, he was the only non-Kurdish
person in Turkey to speak out loud and clearly in defense of the
rights of the Kurds. He has been described as `modern Turkey's pioneer
of Kurdish studies'. At the ceremony he said he was honored by the
jury's selection.
The second laureate this year was the International Memorial Society,
a Russian human rights organization founded by the mothers of Russian
soldiers who stood against the Russian-Chechen war.
Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center
received the 2012 International Human Rights Award on behalf of the
International Memorial Society. Memorial received the award for their
systematic effort to form an archive of state terrorism, and to reveal
human rights violations.
The Jury of the International Hrant Dink Award 2012 consists of Ahmet
Altan, Tim Garton Ash, Emma Bonino, Lydia Cacho, Rakel Dink, Costa
Gavras, Nilüfer Göle, Alexander Iskandaryan and Etyen Mahçupyan.
International Hrant Dink Award
armradio.am
17.09.2012 15:59
Prominent scholar and sociologist Dr. Ismail BeÅ?ikçi has received the
fourth International Hrant Dink Award for his work on Kurds, the
foundation of the Republic of Turkey and the single-party era in
Turkey.
BeÅ?ikçi received the award for his tireless efforts towards a social
and political solution of the Kurdish Issue, refusing to be silenced
despite being subjected to threats and maltreatment throughout his
life. BeÅ?ikçi has continued to carry out research, write books and by
sustaining his struggle he has allowed society to confront its
problems, and made real transformation possible.
Thirty-two of the 36 books the scholar has written are currently
forbidden in Turkey. For many years, he was the only non-Kurdish
person in Turkey to speak out loud and clearly in defense of the
rights of the Kurds. He has been described as `modern Turkey's pioneer
of Kurdish studies'. At the ceremony he said he was honored by the
jury's selection.
The second laureate this year was the International Memorial Society,
a Russian human rights organization founded by the mothers of Russian
soldiers who stood against the Russian-Chechen war.
Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center
received the 2012 International Human Rights Award on behalf of the
International Memorial Society. Memorial received the award for their
systematic effort to form an archive of state terrorism, and to reveal
human rights violations.
The Jury of the International Hrant Dink Award 2012 consists of Ahmet
Altan, Tim Garton Ash, Emma Bonino, Lydia Cacho, Rakel Dink, Costa
Gavras, Nilüfer Göle, Alexander Iskandaryan and Etyen Mahçupyan.