"We remember Hrant!
Salih Memecan in Sabah sums up the anniversary...
I and Çetin and later Sinan ended up close to 3 o'clock and the event was already ending. Most of the people I know were already there at 2 pm. From the Mecidiyeköy, there were more policemen than demonstrators and we got a bit disappointed but later realized that most people were crowded in between Şişli and Taksim.
Apart from nationalist and some radical Islamist press, there is a consensus of lament on Dink's case. However, some, I believe, is doing so because of the consensus itself. In everyday life, there is little consensus though and I happen to see some smart ass strategies to downplay the seriousness of Dink's assassination. One blogger writing in Turkish first disarms the reader by stating that he is against all assassinations like this but then labels Dink as a "fascist". He uses the court's indictments on Dink to assert his case. That what he said about Turks...
After the April elections, ultranationalism among the white Turks resume its dormant state but cases like this their ideological persuasion comes back...
Dink's lawyers say investigation deficient and lacks depth
A report prepared by the lawyers of Hrant Dink's family and presented to the government almost a year after his murder argues that the investigation into the murder of the journalist last January isWhat should we tell Hrant?
Cengiz ÇANDAR
Via Hürriyet
Turkey Armenians wary one year after editor's death
Turkey commemorates Armenian journalist's slaying
İlnur Çevik Did we learn lessons from the Dink murder?
L’esprit de Hrant Dink hante la société turque
La Croix (France), 18 janvier 2008, p.5Delphine Nerbollier, Istamboul, de notre correspondante.
Un an après l’assassinat du journaliste arménien à Istamboul, beaucoup veulent faire vivre sa mémoire, mais le procès de ses meurtriers n’a toujours pas abouti.After Hrant Dink…
Hrant Dink was murdered one year ago. The image and the meaning of his body lying on the sidewalk are not forgotten; we hope that they will never be.Dağlıca, Hrant, 301
Turkey has had many critical problems that have piled up over the years. We still have legal regulations that cause our country to be classified as “half-free” by the international community.
via Hürriyet
Turks remember slain journalist
Thousands gather in Istanbul, Turkey, to mark one year since the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.We remember Hrant!
Saturday, Jan. 19 is the first anniversary of the murder of our friend and colleague Hrant Dink in front of his Armenian-Turkish bilingual weekly Agos newspaper. A year after the cold-blooded and well-orchestrated murder of our friend, a young boy O.S. who pulled the trigger of a gun placed in his hands is behind bars but the masterminds are still at large; we are still complaining of the “failure” of the investigators to identify what dark centers of deep power were involved in the heinous crime; we are still expecting the government to get rid of the contentious Penal Code Article 301 which regulates penalties for “insulting Turkishness” and which made Hrant a target... “We will go whPro-Armenian scholar blames 'deep state' for Dink's murder
Turkey's atmosphere of intolerance is to blame for the murder of Hrant Dink a Turkish academic in the United States, who also spoke in Washington about Turkish-Armenian relations, saidDink family files complaint against Istanbul police chief
In the light of new developments in slain journalist Hrant Dink's case, the Dink family's lawyers filed criminal complaints Thursday against Istanbul Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah, Trabzon'sRakel’s cry still ringing in our ears
There is currently no one in prison on charges related to Article 301. But there is someone lying under the black earth. It has been exactly one year. We are still in darkness.To believe
Jan. 19 is the first anniversary of the death of Hrant Dink, whose murder was planned with the help of someone within the state and subsequently covered up.Hrant Dink still a warning
It has been one year since Dink was murdered in front of Agos on Jan. 19, 2007. A year full of black pages. Then came the Malatya atrocity. Three missionaries were brutally killed.
VIA Hürriyet
Comments
Hi,
You said:
"One blogger writing in Turkish first disarms the reader by stating that he is against all assassinations like this but then labels Dink as a "fascist"."
I do not want to explain why and how Dink is a real fascist just like his killer. It is clear like a day.
But I would like to point that, I am not using any indictments or publication.
He was a Turk according to Turkish constitutional charter. But he claims to be an Armenian and works for this discrimination, and this is what I call "fascism".
I accept every single outrage he or any other "Turk" had in this country, I had too...
But if you say, Armenians are behaved cruelly by Turks, instead of I am or We are behaved, you become a real fascist.
Let me tell you why. when you say I am Armenian and bla bla, you are the one who says "armenian". After this point people treats you like you are armenian. There are zillions of people complaining about everything in Turkey, including me. But I never mentioned this stuff because of I am "kurd armenian or something". This time I become the fasict who makes the discrimination.
Posted by: Tansu | February 6, 2008 12:57 PM