TURKISH NATIONALISTS THREATEN WITH NEW OGUN SAMASTS AND NEW HRANT DINKS
ArmInfo
2010-02-12 16:42:00
ArmInfo. The Web site for Turkey’s leading Armenian newspaper was
hacked in the early hours on Friday.
Hackers identifying themselves as "AK Hacker" overtook the Agos
Web site and put up an image of Ogun Samast, the alleged murderer
of the former editor in chief of the daily, Hrant Dink. The image
was accompanied by a text that criticized opposition to the ruling
party and stated the act of hacking was "an action that will go on
to spread like poison to others who oppose the current powers."
The note also made a chilling threat given the murder of Hrant Dink:
"If you do not fix your reporting in the way we see fit, there will
be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks."
Here’s a translation of the full text on the hacked site:
"You either love or you leave it. Or like the traitor Hrant, you die
and disappear. You are you. You know yourself as much as we know you.
You lived through what you deserved and it will continue as such.
This act take on behalf of the Turkish flag, which is not on your Web
site, and in the name of the Turkish Republic, will continue to spread
like poison to others who oppose the current powers and everyone who
opposes will be affected as such. If you do not change your articles
and your words and your actions along the lines that we see fit,
then there will be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks.
Thinking you’re smart is your biggest ignorance. Just as the traitors
who have given up their Turkishness will one day be expelled from the
borders of this country, Turkey will be cleansed thanks to the current
powers in Turkey and all slander campaigns will be unsuccessful and
inconclusive from now on.
"GAME OVER!
To recall, Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007,
by Ogun Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. At his funeral,
two hundred thousand mourners marched in protest of the assassination,
chanting "We are all Armenians" and "We are all Hrant Dink". Dink was
best known for advocating Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human
and minority rights in Turkey; he was often critical of both Turkey’s
denial of the Armenian Genocide, and of the Armenian diaspora’s
campaign for its international recognition.[1][2] Dink was prosecuted
three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous
death threats from Turkish nationalists. Criticism of Article 301
became increasingly vocal after his death, leading to parliamentary
proposals for repeal.