ARMENIAN YOUTH OF MOSCOW TO ORGANIZE PICKET AT TURKISH EMBASSY ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HRANT DINK’S MURDER

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jan 17 2007

YEREVAN, JANUARY 17, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Youth Union
of New Nakhichevan and Russian Dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic
Church on January 19 initiates a series of public events dated to
the first anniversary of the murder of the editor-in-chief of "Agos"
weekly newspaper Hrant Dink. The Youth Union proposes remembering
on January 19 all crimes committed by Turkey against ethnic and
religious minorities.

According to "Yerkramas" newspaper of Armenans of Russia, a liturgy
in memory of killed Christians in Turkey will be celebrated in Surb
Harutyun Church in Moscow on January 19. On the same day a picket
will be organized at the Turkish embassy, as well as the round table
"Truth Makes US Free" will be conducted at the spiritual-education
center "Hayordats Tun" of the Armenian Apostolic Church, during which
a film about Hrant Dink will be demonstrated and information about
nationalists’ crimes in Turkey will be made public. A statement
calling on the Turkish authorities to stop prosecution of the
Turkish publisher Recep Zakaroglu who may be sentenced to 3-year
imprisonment for "insulting Turkishness" will be adopted during these
public events. It is also envisaged to adopt and send a resolution
to leaders of the EU, the U.S. and Turkey.

"Yerkramas" reported that the national and cultural autonomy of
Assyrians of Moscow will also join the events’ organizers. The lecturer
of the Swedish University Orebro Fuad Deniz (an Assyrian by origin),
who won international recognition for his studies and publications
on the Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of
the 20th century, was killed by unknown radicals recently.