HRANT DINK HONORED WITH FREEDOM OF PRESS 2007 AWARD POSTHUMOUSLY
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.07.2007 18:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Agos Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink
was posthumously honored with Freedom of Press 2007 award of the
Union of Journalists of Turkey.
The award is given to those who were prosecuted under article
301. Ragip Zakaroglu and lawyer Gulcin Caylergilu were also
awarded. Zakaroglu was the first to translate Franz Werfel’s "40 days
of Musa Dag", the book telling about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
The awarding ceremony will take place July 24 in the Dolmabahce Palace
built by Armenian architect Garabet Amira Balyan and his son Nigogayos
Balyan by order of sultan Abdulmecid I.