Archinect
Jan 20 2007
Hrant Dink is not Dead
I know, perhaps this is not a right place for this, I know many
people don’t know him, but today I am deeply saddened by the
assasination of Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, a
large soul, a father, a husband, a fighter against the belligerent
racists and a great journalist, the publisher of Agos, Istanbul’s
only Armenian weekly.
His trained murderer, perhaps an ultra nationalist, an ugly racist, a
coward, shot him from the back. He was murdered on a sidewalk and his
killer sent the majority people of this nation of 70 million into the
darkness with four bullets. Today there will be thousands of
eulogies, billions of tears and angry protests in Turkey and in
Armenia and the rest of the world. But those will not be enough to
honor the humanity of one man who has been abandoned, unjustly tried,
and humiliated in his own country for speaking out in defense of free
speech and peace. Please remember, the name is Hrant Dink, a friend
of liberty and a beautiful human being. God bless him.
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