AZG Armenian Daily #014, 26/01/2007
Murder of Hrant Dink
STATEMENT BY GARY GOODYEAR, CHAIR
Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group
On behalf of the Canada-Armenia Parliamentary
Friendship Group, I would like to express my shock and
deep sadness for the tragic murder of Turkish
journalist Hrant Dink.
This murder is an act which assaults the basic
principles of free expression and democracy.
Mr. Dink was a prominent voice for the Armenian
population in Turkey. He was editor of the bilingual
Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper and his offence was to
seek dialogue and reconciliation between Turks and
Armenians by recognizing the Armenian Genocide of
1915.
Mr. Dink spent his life trying to rid his country and
his two peoples of the denial dividing them. It is our
hope that justice will be served and that we can draw
a lesson from this unimaginable event in order to heal
pains of past actions and pave the way for a peaceful
future through truth and reconciliation.