Hrant Dink, editor of Turkey's only Armenian-language newspaper, assassinated.

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RIP

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Shortly after the shooting, crowds gathered in front of Mr. Dink’s office and chanted “Shoulder to shoulder against fascism” and “We are all Hrant, we are all Armenians.”

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

This is going to be ugly.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

he is the man who was convicted of "insulting turkishness" by talking about the ottoman genocide against the armenians.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- Extremely. Turkey wants in the EU still, they deal with this or else. Then there's that issue on their southeastern border...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh god

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

the sentiment of that crowd gives me hope for turkey.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, as with any other place, extremists are just that - the extreme. (This also explains Iran, where in a great story I read a few weeks back some fellow looking for work overseas noted, "Yeah, some people want to leave here because of issues of freedom but most just want to make some money" -- a perfect repudiation of both the regime and the Ledeen-styled 'They're all just waiting for the regime to be overthrown!' hype.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Extremely. Turkey wants in the EU still, they deal with this or else

Ataturk's regime was nationalist, which was good on the secular side but not so good on the civil rights side. The fact that Dink and people like Pamuk were prosecuted not to mention that they still have laws like that does not help their case with the EU.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Dink ended his last column by predicting that 2007 would be a difficult year, but that he would survive it.

"For me, 2007 is likely to be a hard year. The trials will continue, new ones will be started. Who knows what other injustices I will be up against," he wrote.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Interview with Dink from a month back. The NRO, in their stopped-clock-right-time-twice-a-day mode, noted this great bit from him:

While Dink has no qualms about challenging the Turkish establishment, he is equally unapologetic about scrutinizing the Armenian community. He has been a vocal opponent of France's law that criminalizes Armenian Genocide denial and has proposed to travel to that country and violate the law to prove his point. Dink is quoted in the Turkish daily Hürriyet, saying, "I have been tried in Turkey for saying the Armenian genocide exists, and I have talked about how wrong this is. But at the same time, I cannot accept that in France you could possibly now be tried for denying the Armenian genocide. If this bill becomes law, I will be among the first to head for France and break the law. Then we can watch both the Turkish Republic and the French government race against each other to condemn me."

A true dude. RIP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-19-TURK-JOURNALIST_x.htm

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=anPK9roE4CkM&refer=europe

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Haluk Sahin, a columnist for Radikal, a newspaper that has strongly supported Mr. Dink’s legal struggle as an intellectual, said that Turkey had been hit right in the heart by his murder.

“Those who wanted to harm Turkey couldn’t have chosen a better target,” Mr. Sahin said. “As opposed to other killings in the past, Turkish public reaction against this murder will show us where Turkey stands in the world.”

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

“A bullet was fired at freedom of thought and democratic life in Turkey,” Mr. Erdogan said.

uh, yeah, there is a lot of freedom of thought in Turkey.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

well, there's certainly less than there was.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 22 January 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

I dont understand his thinking about the French legislation but, still, an extraordinary man. RIP.

x-post -- Extremely. Turkey wants in the EU still, they deal with this or else. Then there's that issue on their southeastern border...
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), January 19th, 2007.

Yup. Plus don't forget the Cyprus issue.

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

Armenian Editor’s Death Leads to Conciliation

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

He appears briefly in this clip from the documentary "Screamers"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=towG9RF9R7o

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also features bizarre and funny-out-of-context Schwarzenegger book burning.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

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