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  • Slain Journalist Hrant Dink Remembered at Workshop, Demonstration

    NewsBlaze, CA
    Feb 2 2008


    Slain Journalist Hrant Dink Remembered at Workshop, Demonstration
    By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze

    A little over a year ago, the editor of the newspaper "Agos" was
    assassinated in Istanbul, en route to his newspaper office. Hrant
    Dink, the Turkish-Armenian editor, received multiple death threats
    from Nationalists.

    San Francisco's Armenian American Community is to hold a
    demonstration in San Francisco today, organized by the Armenian
    National Committee. The demonstration is at the site of an all-day
    workshop, called "Portrait of Turkey," between Stockton and Kearny,
    at 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco.


    Hrant Dink, "Agos" editor
    After the assassination, thousands of people demonstrated in Istanbul
    for several days following the tragedy, and it was reported that over
    100,000 mourners marched in the funeral procession.

    Turkish law prohibits "insulting Turkishness" and Dink had faced
    multiple prosecutions for statements he made affirming the Armenian
    Genocide.

    At the time of his murder, there was increasing official pressure to
    silence him, from the Turkish Government. There was also a renewed
    drive by the US State Department to block Congress from commemorating
    the Armenian Genocide as a crime against humanity.
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