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HRANT DINK, SEVAG BALIKCI MURDERS IN CONTEXT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
tert.am
02.05.12
Ali Topuz, a reporter for the Turkey-based Radikal newspaper, addressed
the causes of the Armenian Genocide.
Begun on April 24, the Armenian Genocide did not end the following
day. To understand the causes well, one should study the period
from Abdulhamit to the murders of Hrant Dink and Sevag Balikci. The
Armenian Genocide in 1915 does not cover the earlier committed murders,
Topuz writes.
Abdulhamit's sins are not to be compared with the ones by the
perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. However, Abdulhamit's sins
remain sins.
The Turkish journalist points out two causes of the Armenian Genocide.
One of them is that the principles of the İttihat ve Terakki (Union
and Progress) party were rejected and remained mere theory. They did
not keep their promises, but decided that all the peoples living in
the Ottoman Empire must speak one language and practice one religion -
а socially homogeneous society was to be formed. Abdulhamit was the
one to lay the foundations for that.
The so-called Turk-Islam synthesis and Abdulhamit's ideas were used
both by İttihat ve Terakki and, later, by the republic. Minister of
the Interior Naim Sahin is just repeating the by İttihat-Kemalist
slogan: "The state is true life."
The Armenian Genocide was not committed by İttihat ve Terakki alone.
It was continued. If not so, how did the Hrant Dink murder case reached
its present state? Why has not the Uludere tragedy been properly
investigated? Why are demands for Kurdish education consistently
rejected? Why have the grandsons of Young Turks, Kemalists and
Abduhamit been ruling over the last ten years? Such are the questions
raised by the Turkish journalist.
Hrant Dink, Editor of the Turkey-based Agos newspaper, was murdered
in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.
Sevag Balikci was murdered on April 24, 2011, just 23 days before
demobilization. His fiancée told that his commander had brutally
beaten him because of 50 liras lost in the military unit. After the
incident Sevag lodged a complaint. However, he was threatened and
forced into withdrawing his complaint.
From: A. Papazian
tert.am
02.05.12
Ali Topuz, a reporter for the Turkey-based Radikal newspaper, addressed
the causes of the Armenian Genocide.
Begun on April 24, the Armenian Genocide did not end the following
day. To understand the causes well, one should study the period
from Abdulhamit to the murders of Hrant Dink and Sevag Balikci. The
Armenian Genocide in 1915 does not cover the earlier committed murders,
Topuz writes.
Abdulhamit's sins are not to be compared with the ones by the
perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. However, Abdulhamit's sins
remain sins.
The Turkish journalist points out two causes of the Armenian Genocide.
One of them is that the principles of the İttihat ve Terakki (Union
and Progress) party were rejected and remained mere theory. They did
not keep their promises, but decided that all the peoples living in
the Ottoman Empire must speak one language and practice one religion -
а socially homogeneous society was to be formed. Abdulhamit was the
one to lay the foundations for that.
The so-called Turk-Islam synthesis and Abdulhamit's ideas were used
both by İttihat ve Terakki and, later, by the republic. Minister of
the Interior Naim Sahin is just repeating the by İttihat-Kemalist
slogan: "The state is true life."
The Armenian Genocide was not committed by İttihat ve Terakki alone.
It was continued. If not so, how did the Hrant Dink murder case reached
its present state? Why has not the Uludere tragedy been properly
investigated? Why are demands for Kurdish education consistently
rejected? Why have the grandsons of Young Turks, Kemalists and
Abduhamit been ruling over the last ten years? Such are the questions
raised by the Turkish journalist.
Hrant Dink, Editor of the Turkey-based Agos newspaper, was murdered
in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.
Sevag Balikci was murdered on April 24, 2011, just 23 days before
demobilization. His fiancée told that his commander had brutally
beaten him because of 50 liras lost in the military unit. After the
incident Sevag lodged a complaint. However, he was threatened and
forced into withdrawing his complaint.
From: A. Papazian