Arat Dink Together With His Family Leaves Turkey For Belgium

ARAT DINK TOGETHER WITH HIS FAMILY LEAVES TURKEY FOR BELGIUM

Noyan Tapan
Nov 8, 2007

ISTANBUL, NOVEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Arat Dink, the
son of Hrant Dink, the assassinated editor-in-chief of the Weekly Agos,
has left Turkey.

As the Turkish press reports, Arat Dink together with his wife and
two children has left Turkey on account of the threats continuously
sounded in his and his family’s address, as well as because of the
resolution passed by a Turkish court.

According to the received data, the son of Hrant Dink has settled in
Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

It should be mentioned that a Turkish court condemned Arat Dink and
Sargis Serobian, the responsible secretary of the newspaper, to a
one-year conditional imprisonment with the charge of "insulting the
Turkish identity" about a month ago.

Arat Dink and Sargis Serobian were charged with Article 301 of the
Criminal Code of Turkey after the latters published the interview of
Hrant Dink with the "Reurters" agency in 2006 in the Weekly Agos, in
which the former editor-in-chief called the 1915 events 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