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Istanbul Embraced With Mass Protests
20.01.2007 15:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Istanbul is embraced with mass
protests. Crowds of people go to streets learning
about famous journalist Hrant Dink’s assassination,
Pravda.ru reports. The funeral service for Hrant Dink
in the center of Istanbul first will turn into mass
demonstration and then into march protests. The
demonstrations created serious problems for traffic.
The killed editor-in-chief of `Agos’ weekly became
famous for his discussions over the Armenian Genocide
from 1915 till 1917 of the 20th century. At those
times Turkey massacred over 1.5 million Armenians. In
his articles Dink touched upon the Armenian Genocide
topic so morbid for Turkey, which does not recognize
it. For his articles Dink several times was put under
trial.