ARAT DINK NOT GOING TO LEAVE TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.11.2007 12:22 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Editor at bilingual weekly Agos, Arat Dink, has
told the Turkish Daily News he will not leave Turkey or his job at
the paper, contrary to press reports yesterday.
Reports in many mass circulation dailies yesterday said that slain
Hrant Dink’s son, Arat, had decided to leave Turkey and settle in
Brussels, Belgium with his wife and two children. The reports also
claimed that Dink had quit his job at weekly Agos and his name was
removed from the paper.
However, news coordinator at Agos, Aris Nalci, said he was surprised
to hear these reports. "Arat went to Brussels for only a week to
visit his sister Delal. He returned on Monday and is still at his
job in Agos," he said and added that they could not comprehend why
and how something like this came up.
Arat Dink and Sarkis Seropian stood trial under article 301 and
were given a 1-year suspended sentence for republishing Hrant Dink’s
interview where he spoke about the Armenian Genocide.
Hrant Dink was gunned down outside his newspaper office in Istanbul
by ultranationalist teenager Ogun Samast January 19, 2007.