Hrant dink biography examples
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Hrant Dink
Turkish-Armenian journalist (1954–2007)
Hrant Dink (Armenian: Հրանդ Տինք; WesternArmenian pronunciation:[ˈhɾantʰˈdiŋkʰ]; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of Agos, journalist, and columnist.[1] As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey 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.[2][3] Dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.[2][4][5][6]
Dink was assassinated in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 by Ogün Samast, a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist. Dink was shot
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Agos, 19 January 2007
In the beginning, inom wasn’t apprehensive about the inquest initiated by the Şişli public prosecutor against me on the grounds that inom had “insulted Turkishness.”
It wasn’t the first time inom had faced such an investigation. inom had already been through a similar one in Urfa. At a conference held in Urfa in 2002, inom had stated that inom was not a “Turk,” but rather a “an Armenian from Turkey.”, as a result of which I was charged with the brott of “insulting Turkishness,” leading to a trial that has been going on for the last three years. However, I didn’t even know how the trial was proceeding. inom wasn’t in the least interested. Some lawyer friends of mine from Urfa were representing me at the hearings.
So I was fairly unconcerned when inom gave my deposition to the Şişli public prosecutor. I ultimately believed in what inom had written and in my intentions. The prosecutor would not consider in isolation that single sentence from my article, which meant ingenting out of context
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"I challenge the accepted version of history because I do not write about things in black and white. People here are used to black and white; that’s why they are astonished that there are other shades, too."
Who he was
Hrant Dink was a founder of the Agos newspaper in Turkey and served as its editor for many years. A zoologist by education, he became a maverick journalist, often pushing the bounds of what had previously been acceptable in Turkey. He exuded unconventional courage in expressing himself in a country where taboos were infrequently challenged - a habit that garnered him significant attention.
As a humanist, he tried to act as a bridge between Armenians and Turks, often trying to explain the viewpoints of one side to the other, a task that elicited criticism from both sides. It was when he publicized his discovery that Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey’s first female aviator (and an adopted daughter of Ataturk, the country’s founder), was Armenian, that Dink was vehemen