The Hrant Dink Society
c/o The Temple of Peace, Cardiff, Wales
eilian@nantperis.wanadoo.co.uk
Tel: 07718982732
invites you on
Hrant Dink Day, 19th January 2010, in the UK Parliament

to a Silent Vigil outside the Turkish Embassy,Belgrave Square (nr.
Hyde Park Corner tube station) at 1 p.m.
with banners :

"Turkey Face Your Past, Respect Your Minorities"

and also to these meetings:

"What is really going on in Turkey?"

Speakers include Ragip Zarakolu, one of the founders of the Turkish
Human Rights Association and publisher, prosecuted 40 times, most
recently for publishing a novel (see "My dreams are on trial" below).

1 "Problems of the ‘Other’ and of ‘Minorities’ in Turkey" (Ragip
Zarakolu, Desmond Fernandes and Arzu Pesman – Kurdish
Federation-FEDBIR), "Hrant Dink’s Vision" (Ragip Zarakolu) and
"Rediscovering Turkish Armenia" (Vardan Tadevossian), Ruth Barnett on
"The shared Jewish and Armenian experience" – in Committee Room 16 at
5 p.m.

Sponsor : Nia Griffith MP

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2 The lessons of Holocaust, Genocide and current problems of
Ethnic Cleansing -Discussion in Committee Room 16 at 6 p.m. Eilian
Williams

"Consequences of the Genocide for Assyrians in Turkey and Iraq" Saad
Tokatly : The current problems of Assyrians and other Middle East
Christians"

The meeting will also be used to Promote EDM 287 by Dr Bob Spink on
the Holocaust and Andrew Dismore’s Presentation Bill to introduce a
national day to learn about and remember the Armenian genocide, to be
read a Second time on Friday 30 April 2010 (Bill 42).

Sponsor: Dr Bob Spink MP

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3 Meeting in the House of Lords (Committee Room 3A at 7 p.m. ) –
Launch of ‘Friends of Belge Press’ and ‘The Current Human Rights
Situation in Turkey’
Sponsor: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Speakers: Ragip Zarakolu, Desmond Fernandes and Haci Ozdemir
(International Committee Against Disappearances – British Section).
Khatchatur I. Pilikian on "Holocaust and Genocide