Dave

Let us hope that the funeral will go well.

I just found an Armenian TV show about Hrant Dink and starts with a conference that Dink gave in a diaspora place. http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=194...19962188&q=

Erdogan finally admitted that they are all responsible for his death. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/stor...6361319,00.html

If they want to stay, it's not that bad. After all, they are the last foothold of both Christians and Armenians in Turkey.

Yeah, I've read that he will probably be judged as a minor (he's 16-17 years old) which would obviously reduce his sentence to prison. This would of course be not enough, unless they find and judge those who are truly behind the assassination.

Here's a video from someone who was in the scene when Hrant was removed from the place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTrd76y6sUM...ted&search= Search for other videos about the assassination here too.

In the wikipedia article it is written that he said "I shot the Infidel" according to witnesses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrant_Dink And yea, they've always called us gyavur/kafir (infidel) or raya (flock).

Last year, when there he and other supporters of the Armenian cause had all those legal problems, we held a small protest here in the freezing cold in support of Hrant and other defenders of the Armenian cause, but the media kept ignoring it. Now he's everywhere in the media... Is it only after the man dies that they'd talk about him?? Oh well.. At least we can say "we told you so".

Although the first line of this article is ok: Hrant Dink became the 1,500,001st victim of the Armenian genocide yesterday. In later parts Fisk is thinking that the murderer might be an Armenian nationalist. Impossible. http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2169190.ece

Nice finds Mosjan http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-01/27463619.jpg http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-01/27463591.jpg

I can't believe that REUTERS called him a Turkish American instead of Turkish Armenian! (First there's a commercial) http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.a...88258441e2806b6 I'm sure that people like Kemal Kerincsiz (leader of the Turkish Lawyers' Union that organized all the anti-Armenian things in recent years) is behind this in some ways. http://www.collectifvan.org/images/reports/reportage_24_3.jpg

Oh, I didn't understand what "Hepimiz" or "-iz" was on the papers that they're holding when I made that comment.

I'm sure that all these protesters in Istanbul are Bolsahyes, mostly.

I can't stand the "politically correctness" in news articles either. I came across one of these that said "Turkey, being a majority Muslim country and Armenia, allegedly being the first Christian nation in the world...." etc. So now they're taking on our Ancient history too

First they say he's a criminal in Turkey, then they call the murder an "attack against the nation".

That's precisely the reason Arpa There's another thread in the Diaspora section..

Apparently, prior to the murder, he had gotten some e-mails threatening him and there was one that was particularly worrying. The police gave no attention to that when he notified them though..

Journalist shot dead in Istanbul POSTED: 1405 GMT (2205 HKT), January 19, 2007 ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- A prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist who spoke out against the killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire early last century was shot to death Friday, according to CNN Turk. Hrant Dink, 53, editor of the Armenian-Turkish language weekly Agos newspaper, was shot dead in front of the Istanbul publication as he was leaving. Authorities are looking into a lead that he was shot four times by a young man who appeared to be 18 or 19 years old. Described as a "well-known commentator on Armenian affairs," Dink has faced a number of cases in connection with "insulting" the Turkish state for his writings. "Some of the trial hearings have been marred by violent scenes inside and outside the courtrooms, instigated by nationalist activists calling for Dink to be punished," said a profile on the Web site of Pen American Center -- the writers' group that promotes free expression. Agos, an Armenian-Turkish language weekly, was established in 1996. Pen's profile said that in 2005, Dink "had been charged for an article published in Agos in which he discussed the impact on present day Armenian diaspora of the killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman army in 1915-17." This is a hot-button issue in the region, Pen notes. Armenians and other countries regard the killings of Armenians in the early 20th century as a a genocide, a claim rejected by the Turkish government, which says Armenians and Turks were killed in civil warfare. Dink was one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's shrinking Armenian community. A Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, he had received threats from nationalists, who viewed him as a traitor. In an earlier interview with The Associated Press, Dink had cried as he talked about some of his fellow countrymen's hatred for him, saying he could not stay in a country where he was unwanted. Private NTV television said police were searching for the suspected murderer, believed to be a teenager wearing a white hat and a denim jacket, but the identity and motivation of the shooter were unknown, AP reported. Dink's body could be seen covered with a white sheet in front of the newspaper's entrance. NTV said four empty shell casings were found on the ground and that he was killed by two bullets to the head. Fehmi Koru, a columnist at the Yeni Safak newspaper, said the murder was aimed at destabilizing Turkey. "His loss is the loss of Turkey," Koru said. Copyright 2007 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/WORLD/europe/01/19/turkey.dink/story.body.jpg http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/WORLD/europe/01/19/turkey.dink/story.gink.afp.gi.jpg http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/19/turkey.dink/

It was precisely the never-ending Catholic interference in Cilician politics that led to Cilicia's demise in 1375. At this stage the strife between Armenians wasn't merely between different families; it was between different Christian denominations. Should we have all converted to Catholicism? I mean was it really the Apostolic Church that kept us away from assimilation? The Lebanese Maronites got their own country carved up for being pro-French Catholics, despite the fact that they were barely a majority in early 20th cent. lebanon.

Later on he tried to convince European monarchs to start other Crusades to recover Armenian land, but no... we were of no use to them I guess. This is a good example of how Europeans were in the past, and how they will always be in regards to Armenian plights. Saint Denis was the basilica where almost all French kings such as François I and Louis XIV were buried. Levon VI was in fact the only non-French king buried there.

You mean 72 million. Even though the percentage was 1% instead of 13%, it should give us some hope, right?

It's ok Perhaps there are some decent Turks but I doubt that there are Azeris like that. Are there?

It's not enough, but I don't think that everyone supports the German payments to Israel as a punishment to the Holocaust.

Why is it ironic? There is a difference between hating Jewish/Israeli policies and hating Jews altogether.

Nobody says that the general Jewish public has bad intentions. It is "only" the leadership, the Jewish lobby, and so on.