Justice Sought For Slain Turk Armenian Writer

JUSTICE SOUGHT FOR SLAIN TURK ARMENIAN WRITER

Reuters
Gulf News, United Arab Emirates
July 3 2007

Istanbul: About 1,000 protesters demanded justice yesterday outside
a court where 18 suspects went on trial for the murder of ethnic
Armenian editor Hrant Dink in a case that has raised doubts over free
speech in Turkey.

Dink, whose comments about the massacres of Armenians in Turkey
in 1915 angered Turkish nationalists, was gunned down outside his
Istanbul office in January by a 17-year-old who has confessed to the
killing. More than 100,000 people turned out at Dink’s funeral to
show solidarity and protest against violent ultra-nationalism.

‘Shoulder to shoulder against fascism’, the pro-testers chanted
outside the court in the Besiktas district of Istanbul as the first
hearing began. ‘All of us witnesses want justice’, read their banners.

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