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Jan 20 2007
Hrant Dink: This Heart Will Never Get Silent!
by ender yilmaz - AKi -Turkey Saturday, Jan 20 2007, 7:17am
greece / turkey / cyprus / anti-fascism / news report
`Those who killed Hrant Dink are' shouted one speaker at Taksim
square sit-in yesterday evening `those who don't want people's
fraternity, ...those who killed 1,5 million Armenians, ... those who
exiled hundreds of thousands of Kurds from their villages, ...those who
created Sivas, Çorum, Maraº massacres, ...those who represent the
rotten gang order of this country, ...'
`Those who killed Hrant Dink are' shouted one speaker at Taksim
square sit-in yesterday evening `those who don't want people's
fraternity, ...those who killed 1,5 million Armenians, ... those who
exiled hundreds of thousands of Kurds from their villages, ...those who
created Sivas, Çorum, Maraº massacres, ...those who represent the
rotten gang order of this country, ...'
Hrandt Dink, an Armenian journalist and a leftist intellectual, was a
firm supporter of a society without nationalisms. He was found guilty
in October 2005 of insulting Turkish identity after he wrote an
article which addressed the Armenian genocide. He said that he will
go to Paris and say that there is no Armenian genocide, if the
Armenian genocide law will pass in French parliament. He got lots of
threats. He represented the line of true intellectuals which every
country has.
The Istanbul sit-in to protest his murder began in the afternoon and
ended at 8 p.m. with a one-hour-long march to his newspaper, Agos.
Estimates of the participants range between 5 and 15 thousand. There
were also other protests in Ankara, Izmir and Bursa. Some of the
slogans in Istanbul protest were: `We all are Armenians, we all are
Kurds', "Obsinately we all are Armenians", `We all are Hrant's, we
all are Armenians', `Long live people's fraternity' (in Turkish,
Kurdish and Armenian), `The ropes of the murderer is in the hands of
the state', `Murderer state will pay back', `Side by side against
fascism', `Time will come, the order will change, fascist murderers
will pay back to the people' etc.
Flags of the ex-`social-democratic' new-center Republican People's
Party (CHP) were burned (its building was near to the Agos newspaper
and people cut the flags hanging between the street lamps) and people
shouted: `CHP is not people's, but fascists' party', `Fascist Baykal
(leader of the CHP)', `Baykal! We are Kurds, shoot us too'.
Coincidentally (!) fascist gangs continued their provocations at
Istanbul and Mimar Sinan Universities yesterday. In the morning a
gang of 30-40 people (mostly outside the university) managed to enter
the university (security guards probably displayed an extreme
benevolence to them which they don't have for leftist students) and
walked in the campus for leftists. In the evening a group of students
at the sit-in should leave to save the students at the Mimar Sinan
University campus in Beºiktaº from the fascist gang blocking the
exit.
The protests will continue today, but nobody knows really what is
aimed with this murder. Fascist sites are rejoicing. Some
conservative people even argue that it is the job of the Armenian
Diaspora. The big media is very sad (a sadness they didn't have for
the persecution of Hrant Dink before, neither for the massacred
Armenians).
Hrant Dink represented the moderate Armenian who wanted to let the
Turkish people understand the past violence and knew that
interventions from first world states created nothing but xenophobia
dressed under anti-imperialism. We have to keep this line, but this
will be only possible by the participation of more and more people to
the protests. Only this can overcome the lack of this valuable friend
and stop inter-ethnic conflicts. Only then Hrant Dink can live as if
he is still speaking and writing, as if he was not murdered. As the
protesters were singing yesterday evening:
There is no death for us
This heath will never get silent
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=4 690
Jan 20 2007
Hrant Dink: This Heart Will Never Get Silent!
by ender yilmaz - AKi -Turkey Saturday, Jan 20 2007, 7:17am
greece / turkey / cyprus / anti-fascism / news report
`Those who killed Hrant Dink are' shouted one speaker at Taksim
square sit-in yesterday evening `those who don't want people's
fraternity, ...those who killed 1,5 million Armenians, ... those who
exiled hundreds of thousands of Kurds from their villages, ...those who
created Sivas, Çorum, Maraº massacres, ...those who represent the
rotten gang order of this country, ...'
`Those who killed Hrant Dink are' shouted one speaker at Taksim
square sit-in yesterday evening `those who don't want people's
fraternity, ...those who killed 1,5 million Armenians, ... those who
exiled hundreds of thousands of Kurds from their villages, ...those who
created Sivas, Çorum, Maraº massacres, ...those who represent the
rotten gang order of this country, ...'
Hrandt Dink, an Armenian journalist and a leftist intellectual, was a
firm supporter of a society without nationalisms. He was found guilty
in October 2005 of insulting Turkish identity after he wrote an
article which addressed the Armenian genocide. He said that he will
go to Paris and say that there is no Armenian genocide, if the
Armenian genocide law will pass in French parliament. He got lots of
threats. He represented the line of true intellectuals which every
country has.
The Istanbul sit-in to protest his murder began in the afternoon and
ended at 8 p.m. with a one-hour-long march to his newspaper, Agos.
Estimates of the participants range between 5 and 15 thousand. There
were also other protests in Ankara, Izmir and Bursa. Some of the
slogans in Istanbul protest were: `We all are Armenians, we all are
Kurds', "Obsinately we all are Armenians", `We all are Hrant's, we
all are Armenians', `Long live people's fraternity' (in Turkish,
Kurdish and Armenian), `The ropes of the murderer is in the hands of
the state', `Murderer state will pay back', `Side by side against
fascism', `Time will come, the order will change, fascist murderers
will pay back to the people' etc.
Flags of the ex-`social-democratic' new-center Republican People's
Party (CHP) were burned (its building was near to the Agos newspaper
and people cut the flags hanging between the street lamps) and people
shouted: `CHP is not people's, but fascists' party', `Fascist Baykal
(leader of the CHP)', `Baykal! We are Kurds, shoot us too'.
Coincidentally (!) fascist gangs continued their provocations at
Istanbul and Mimar Sinan Universities yesterday. In the morning a
gang of 30-40 people (mostly outside the university) managed to enter
the university (security guards probably displayed an extreme
benevolence to them which they don't have for leftist students) and
walked in the campus for leftists. In the evening a group of students
at the sit-in should leave to save the students at the Mimar Sinan
University campus in Beºiktaº from the fascist gang blocking the
exit.
The protests will continue today, but nobody knows really what is
aimed with this murder. Fascist sites are rejoicing. Some
conservative people even argue that it is the job of the Armenian
Diaspora. The big media is very sad (a sadness they didn't have for
the persecution of Hrant Dink before, neither for the massacred
Armenians).
Hrant Dink represented the moderate Armenian who wanted to let the
Turkish people understand the past violence and knew that
interventions from first world states created nothing but xenophobia
dressed under anti-imperialism. We have to keep this line, but this
will be only possible by the participation of more and more people to
the protests. Only this can overcome the lack of this valuable friend
and stop inter-ethnic conflicts. Only then Hrant Dink can live as if
he is still speaking and writing, as if he was not murdered. As the
protesters were singing yesterday evening:
There is no death for us
This heath will never get silent
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=4 690