N.Y. VIGIL FOR SLAIN TURK
By NILES LATHEM
New York Post, NY
Jan 24 2007
January 24, 2007 — Hundreds of ethnic Armenians gathered in Midtown
near the Turkish Consulate last night for a candlelight vigil for
Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, whose assassination last week sparked
world protest.
"We don’t want to shout and scream and protest. We want to honor him
and his work," said Leon Temiz, an Armenian community activist who
knew Dink.
Dink, 52, was gunned down Friday outside the Istanbul offices of his
newspaper, Agos. His funeral yesterday drew thousands to Istanbul.
It is widely believed that he was targeted because of his columns
discussing the slaughter of Armenians at the hand of the Turks in
the early 20th century – a tragedy which Dink, an ethnic Armenian,
called "genocide."