“The prosecutions are not a surprise for me. They want to teach me a lesson because I am Armenian. They try to keep me quiet.”
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Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Agos. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey 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 Arme…
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culture · Turkish-Armenian journalist (1954–2007) · columnist · association football player · journalist · human rights defender · writer · opinion journalist · editing staff · publisher · also Hrant Dink, Dink
Born 15 September 1954 · Died 19 January 2007 · Q110126
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2026· 4 entries
“I challenge the accepted version of history because I do not write about things in black and white. People here are used to black and white; that's why they are astonished that there are other shades, too.”
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“If I write about the [Armenian] genocide it angers the Turkish generals. I want to write and ask how we can change this historical conflict into peace. They don't know how to solve the Armenian problem.”
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News: Hrant Dink assassinated 19 years ago today
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2022· 3 entries
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Kyrgyzstan Arrests Turkish Citizen Allegedly Involved In 2007 Killing Of Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink
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bianet: Hrant Dink as the founder of the new republic
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bianet: Hrant Dink’s dreams in his own voice: 'Memory too low for words'
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2021· 1 entry
After serving two thirds of his sentence
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2017· 1 entry
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Crowd Marks 10th Anniversary Of Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink's Murder
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2013· 1 entry
Armenpress: Hrant Dink's murder case solution is a key to other political crimes: Fethiye Çetin
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2012· 1 entry
The New Yorker: Hrant Dink’s Voice
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2011· 1 entry
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey had failed to protect Hrant Dink's life and freedom of expression
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2007· 6 entries
Awarded International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes (2007).
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Awarded Hermann Kesten Prize (2007).
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Christian Science Monitor: In standing up for truth, Hrant Dink no longer stands alone
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Armenpress: CAUCASIAN MEDIA INSTITUTE: “DEATH OF HRANT DINK SHOWS THERE EXISTS LONG PATH UNTIL REACHING UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY”
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Died 2007-01-19.
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The camp grounds continued to stand empty, awaiting the new Foundation law that was passed at the end of 2006 but was vetoed and returned to parliament by President Sezer
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Bjørnson Prize (2006).
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Awarded Oxfam Novib/PEN Award (2006).
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“There are Turks who don't admit that their ancestors committed genocide. If you look at it though, they seem to be nice people... So why don't they admit it? Because they think that genocide is a bad thing which they would never want to commit, and because they can't believe their ancestors would do such a thing either.”
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“I never meant to insult Turkish citizens. The term in question was taken out of context and is only symbolic. The real subject of the article is the Armenian diaspora who, once they have come to terms with the Turkish part of their identity, can seek new answers to their questions from independent Armenia. In a February 2006 interview with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Dink spoke about his 2005 conviction for insulting Turkishness in a criminal court:”
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2005· 2 entries
“This is a political decision because I wrote about the Armenian genocide and they detest that, so they found a way to accuse me of insulting Turks.”
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Accused Germany of using the genocide to block Turkey's entry to the European Union, stating that he was ashamed, as an Armenian, that such manner of drama and political maneuvering should continue into the present da
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2001· 1 entry
The camp grounds were sold to a local businessman who intended to build a house on the site until Dink contacted him and let him know that the land had belonged to an orphanage
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1996· 2 entries
The materials from which was published in book form in 2000, with a foreword by Orhan Pamuk and an afterword by Hrant Dink
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Career landmark: editor-in-chief (1996–2007).
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1984· 1 entry
Was one of the factors that raised Dink's awareness of the issues of the Armenian community and eventually led to his becoming an activist
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1979· 1 entry
The General Directorate of Foundations started a court action to annul Gedikpaşa Armenian Protestant Church's ownership of the camp, based on a 1974 ruling by the Court of Appeals that made it impossible for minority fou
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1972· 1 entry
Legally changed his name (to Fırat Dink), along with two Armenian friends, Armanek and İstepan, to disassociate their factional activities from the Armenian community
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1959· 1 entry
In Silopi, Cizre, Rakel was one of 13 children of Siyament Yağbasan, head of the Varto clan and Delal Yağbasan who died when Rakel was a child
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-09-15.
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1915· 3 entries
The Varto clan had received orders to relocate along with the rest of the Armenian population in the region, but they were attacked during the journey
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“Of course I'm saying it's a genocide, because its consequences show it to be true and label it so. We see that people who had lived on this soil for 4,000 years were exterminated by these events.”
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“Turkish-Armenian relations should be taken out of a 1915 meters-deep well.”
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