NETHERLANDS AWARDS HRANT DINK
Zaman, Turkey
Nov 13 2006
A Dutch international aid organization, Oxfam Novib, announced that
Hrant Dink, the editor in chief of Istanbul-based Turkish-Armenian
newspaper Agos, has been awarded with this year’s "Pen Awards".
A statement from the organization reiterated that this award was
given to authors or artists under pressure and facing censorship in
different countries every year.
With this award, the organization wanted to support Hrant Dink
financially and morally in his work.
Dink has been in and out of Turkish courts in the past year for
spoken out on sensitive subjects like the Armenian genocide and ethnic
identity in Turkey.