I know, perhaps this is not a right place for this, I know many people don't know him, but today I am deeply saddened by the assasination of Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, a large soul, a father, a husband, a fighter against the belligerent racists and a great journalist, the publisher of Agos, Istanbul's only Armenian weekly.
His trained murderer, perhaps an ultra nationalist, an ugly racist, a coward, shot him from the back. He was murdered on a sidewalk and his killer sent the majority people of this nation of 70 million into the darkness with four bullets. Today there will be thousands of eulogies, billions of tears and angry protests in Turkey and in Armenia and the rest of the world. But those will not be enough to honor the humanity of one man who has been abandoned, unjustly tried, and humiliated in his own country for speaking out in defense of free speech and peace. Please remember, the name is Hrant Dink, a friend of liberty and a beautiful human being. God bless him.
Also, a tiny story from a collegue in Zaman.
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Stand up for the Armenian Genocide, Orhan, and maybe we'll believe you. That is what Dink did, and it got him killed.
The Turkish people will not move on, join the EU, get their identity crisis settled unless they come to grips with what happened in 1915.
You using this platform in an architectural website to profess solidarity with Armenian people (?!!!!) takes the form of crocodile tears until you and your countrypeople admit to a historical truth, and massive injustice, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, an indisputable fact. Where did 1.5 million people go? Why is there an Armenian diaspora if they were not dispersed from somewhere? We don't want to hear another bullshit Turkish theory on where all these people went.
Personally, I don't think you have the guts. Do you?
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