PanARMENIAN.Net

Hrant Dink Strove For Reconciliation of Two Peoples
20.01.2007 17:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The symbolic meanings of the killing of Hrant Dink
are clear. The murder as if extends the prevailing cultural climate in
Turkey of denial of the Armenian Genocide, and the prevailing infamous
law 301 which makes it a betrayal of the Turkish nation to speak of
the Armenian Genocide, told Executive Director, Institute on the
Holocaust and Genocide of Jerusalem Prof. Israel Charny the
PanARMENIAN.Net corespondent. In his words, Hrant Dink was both a
loyal member of his Armenian people and a loyal citizen of his Turkish
nation. `He strove for reconciliation of the two peoples and he wanted
his nation to be accepted as a member of the European Community. We
hope that the tragedy of his murder will lead to prompt condemnation
by Turkish society and to police and legal steps to convict his
murderers. But we also hope that this ugly murder will have a stunning
effect on decent Turkish society, which will lead it to abolish law
301, and to acknowledge the history of genocide of non-Moslem peoples,
including the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, during the period of
1915-1922,’ Prof. Charny underscored.