STREET RENAMING AFTER HRANT DINK SHOULD BE QUICK AND EASY: HURRIYET DAILY NEWS

news.am
feb 26 2010
Armenia

In an article as of Feb. 25 Turkish Hurriyet Daily News once again
appealed to Sisli municipality (Istanbul) to rename "Ergenekon Avenue"
to "Hrant Dink Street".

"We believe the city should reconsider. This would be a small but
important monument to the memory of a man who did so much to foster
understanding. And it is a small step that would certainly ease and
enable the much larger diplomatic, political and social leaps that
we hope will follow," the daily reads.

The author says that the streets’ name changing should be quick and
easy unlike resolution of political problems and confidence-building
that requires long period of time.

Hurriyet reaffirms its support to Armenia-Turkey reconciliation
process and Turkish government’s steps directed towards study of
Armenian language in the universities. It also backs restoration of
Armenian churches in Turkey. The daily mentions these all processes
are very complicated and need transformation in Armenian and Turkish
societies, thus they need time. However, the name of the street should
not be among them, the Turkish newspaper reads.