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Mourners flood Istanbul for ethnic Armenian editor

Mourners flood Istanbul for ethnic Armenian editor

Globe and Mail, Canada
Jan 24 2007

Istanbul — More than 100,000 mourners choked the streets of Istanbul
yesterday for the funeral of an ethnic Armenian journalist whose
slaying sparked debate about freedom of expression and whether Turks
of different backgrounds can live together.

"We are all Armenians!" mourners chanted in an extraordinary
outpouring of affection for editor Hrant Dink, who had made enemies
among nationalist Turks by labelling the mass killings of Armenians
as genocide.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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