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    ARAT DINK RECEIVES GUARDIAN JOURNALISM AWARD

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    02.05.2008 14:17 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Arat Dink, the son of slain Hrant Dink, received
    the Guardian Journalism Award from the campaigning group Index on
    Censorship. It was not just to commemorate his father's work, but
    for his own brave refusal to buckle under the censorship laws that
    led to his father's death.

    Since it was introduced three years ago, article 301 of Turkey's
    penal code, which makes insulting Turkishness a criminal offence, has
    been used to bring charges against illustrious names in literature,
    academia and journalism: Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel prize-winning author;
    Noam Chomsky; the novelist Elif Safak; Hrant Dink, the Armenian-Turkish
    journalist who was assassinated by radical nationalists; and last
    year Hrant's son Arat.

    Arat, executive director of Agos, an Armenian newspaper in Istanbul,
    was brought to trial as a co-defendant, along with Serkis Seropyan,
    holder of the weekly's publishing license. Their crime was to have
    republished an interview that Hrant gave to Reuters in which he
    referred to the 1915 massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
    as Genocide. Arat was convicted as charged and given a one-year
    suspended sentence. The Agos staff continues to be threatened by
    extreme nationalists but remain determined in the face of bigotry
    and physical threat.

    Arat Dink believes both Turks and Armenians are postponing a common
    historical reckoning and looks forward to the day when both peoples
    can commemorate the events in 1915 as a common part of their history,
    without threatening each other's identity. Like father, like son,
    GIBRAHAYER e-magazine reports.
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