Hrant Dink Awarded Henri Nannen Prize For Promoting Press Freedom

HRANT DINK AWARDED HENRI NANNEN PRIZE FOR PROMOTING PRESS FREEDOM

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.05.2006 12:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Hrant Dink, editor of the Armenian-language weekly
Agos published in Turkey, is awarded Henri Nannen Prize for promotion
of press freedom and courage. Gruner+Jahr German edition and Stern
Weekly sponsor the award. “He gives his vote to his people” was the
slogan. Hrant Dink is awarded the prize for “breaking the wall of
silence and fear in Turkey, behind which Turkish Armenians live.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS