8th anniversary of Hrant Dink Assassination commemorated as one Police chief arrested in the murder case…

[TIMELINE] Hrant Dink Memorials on 8th Anniversary

Bianet :: English

Murdered on 19 January 2007, Agos Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink will be remembered with a march from Istanbul’s Taksim district to Osmanbey where the murder scene and Agos newspaper headquarters are located.

[FULL TEXT] Murathan Mungan’s Hrant Dink Memorial Speech

Bianet :: English

On the 8th anniversary of Hrant Dink’s assassination, poet and playwright Murathan Mungan spoke to the crowd gathered for the commemoration ceremony.

Police chief submits himself to police over Dink murder case

A police chief accused of negligence in the murder of journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 has handed himself into the authorities in Ankara

Rally in Istanbul on the 8th anniversary of Hrant Dink assassination
Public Radio of Armenia

At the action organized by the HDP Şişli District Organization, a petition was launched for the name of Ergenekon Street to be changed to Hrant Dink Street. As in previous years, a “Hrant Dink Street” sticker was placed on the “Ergenekon Street” sign.

Photo: #HrantDink askerdeyken... via @SelcukRSirin

When Hrant Dink was doing his mandatory military service..

Commemorating Hrant Dink on 8th year of murder

Mourners are set to march in Istanbul to commemorate Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on Jan. 19

Photo: #HrantİçinAdaletİçin #BuradayızAhparig!

Young Hrant with his wife…

Eight Years After His Politically Motivated Death, Hrant Dink Still Cannot Rest in Peace

Global Voices Online by Ece Basay

Tens of thousands gather in Istanbul for Hrant Dink
19 January 2014 by Bulent Selcuk. Demotix.

On January 19, 2007, Hrant Dink, an Armenian journalist, was murdered by 17-year-old Ogün Samast, an ultra-nationalist from the Turkish city of Trabzon. After a trial spanning half a decade, Samast was sentenced to nearly 23 years in jail in 2011.

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Two groups of students have clashed over Charlie Hebdo massacre, Dink commemoration

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Changing Turkey in a Changing World

The bicephalous nature of Turkey’s Syrian Policy

by Ariel González Levaggi (Koç University, Turkey)

Ariel González Levaggi is a Ph.D. student at Koç University in Istanbul. Turkey. He holds a TÜBİTAK Graduate Scholarship and acts as the Secretary of the Turkish Studies Chair at the Eurasia Department- Institute of International Relations of the National University of La Plata (Argentina).

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