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USA AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: ASSASSINATION OF ARMENIAN JOURNALIST
HRANT DINK STRIKES A BLOW AGAINST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Yerevan, January 31. ArmInfo. The USA and the whole international
community are indignant at the assassination of Hrant Dink, an
Armenian journalist and Turkish citizen, which struck a blow against
the freedom of expression.
The web site of the US Department of State reports that in condemning
Hrant Dink's January 19 murder in Istanbul, Julie Finley, the
U.S. ambassador to the OSCE noted that the assassination of an
independent-minded journalist like Dink is "an assault that is felt by
all." Finley said the United States welcomed Turkey's "quick and
proper reaction" and promise to solve the murder case as quickly as
possible. She added that Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer was
right in characterizing the murder as a "repugnant and shameful
attack" that "deeply wounded" Turkey. The ambassador to the OSCE said
that Sezer's wish that Turkey "never experience such a sorrowful event
again" is the United States' wish as well, and added that the United
States applauded the "new gestures of openness" between Turkish and
Armenian authorities in response to the assassination. In his turn,
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Daniel Fried, who participated in the memorial service in Washington
for Hrant Dink, noted that the journalist "stood for a civic virtue
higher than hatred, higher than ethnic stereotypes, higher than fears
and repression and ignorance". "His was a vision of a better
world. His was a vision of the best in Turkey's tradition. The measure
of how our world falls short must be judged by his murder at the hands
of an ignorant, hate-filled nationalist," D.Fried noted.
HRANT DINK STRIKES A BLOW AGAINST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Yerevan, January 31. ArmInfo. The USA and the whole international
community are indignant at the assassination of Hrant Dink, an
Armenian journalist and Turkish citizen, which struck a blow against
the freedom of expression.
The web site of the US Department of State reports that in condemning
Hrant Dink's January 19 murder in Istanbul, Julie Finley, the
U.S. ambassador to the OSCE noted that the assassination of an
independent-minded journalist like Dink is "an assault that is felt by
all." Finley said the United States welcomed Turkey's "quick and
proper reaction" and promise to solve the murder case as quickly as
possible. She added that Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer was
right in characterizing the murder as a "repugnant and shameful
attack" that "deeply wounded" Turkey. The ambassador to the OSCE said
that Sezer's wish that Turkey "never experience such a sorrowful event
again" is the United States' wish as well, and added that the United
States applauded the "new gestures of openness" between Turkish and
Armenian authorities in response to the assassination. In his turn,
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Daniel Fried, who participated in the memorial service in Washington
for Hrant Dink, noted that the journalist "stood for a civic virtue
higher than hatred, higher than ethnic stereotypes, higher than fears
and repression and ignorance". "His was a vision of a better
world. His was a vision of the best in Turkey's tradition. The measure
of how our world falls short must be judged by his murder at the hands
of an ignorant, hate-filled nationalist," D.Fried noted.