The United States said Thursday it has made clear to Turkey that an independent and transparent judiciary is important in the case of murdered ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. A Turkish court on Tuesday jailed a man for life for inciting Dink's murder, but acquitted more than a dozen other suspects when it ruled that his killing was not planned in a wider conspiracy, as alleged by his supporters. "We have regularly talked to the government of Turkey about this case and others," State...Read Full Story
Solidarity with Prisoners of Conscience in Turkey 5th Anniversary of Hrant Dink's Martyrdom London Commemorations 1 You are warmly invited to the following meeting in Committee Room 1 of the House of Lords, at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 18th January (eve of Hrant Dink Day) "Has Anything Changed in Turkey?" (From Hrant Dink in 2007 to Ragip Zarakolu, 2012) Desmond Fernandes: The targeting of the "Other" in Turkey Dr. Surhan Cam, University of Cardiff: On the crypto-Armenian Community (The...Read Full Story
PARIS/ ANKARA ( Reuters ) - France sparked a major diplomatic row with Turkey on Thursday by taking steps to criminalize the denial of genocide, including the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, prompting Ankara to cancel all economic, political and military meetings. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the draft law put forward by members of President Nicolas Sarkozy 's ruling party was "politics based on racism, discrimination, xenophobia." "This is using Turkophobia and...Read Full Story
Armenians famous are still alive and kicking in America - fuck you Turkey!
WELL I’M ARMENIAN
I KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE FUCKING MISERABLE L7S CALLED TURKS.
THEY SUCK
I HOPE THEY GET THE CHAIR UP THEIR TUSHES
I LOATHE THEM INTENSELY
THE BEST TURK I EVER MET WAS A DEAD ONE
SWEAR TO THE UNIVERSE
READ THE STORY HERE – AND TELL ME I’M WRONG AND THEY DID THIS TO A TURKISH WOMAN!
JUST THINK “MIDNIGHT EXPRESS” AND WHAT THEY WOULD DO TO AN “INFIDEL” SHOULD THEY COME CROSS ONE!
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Globe and Mail French parliament passes Armenian genocide bill CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Paris (CNN) -- France's parliament passed a controversial Armenian genocide draft law Thursday, making it a crime to publicly deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks last century, a National Assembly press officer said ... State TV: Turkey Recalls Ambassador ABC News France Risks Turkish Ire With Bill on Genocide Wall Street Journal France votes for Armenian 'genocide' bill AFP...Read Full Story
PanARMENIAN.Net - Taraf newspaper published an article by Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Taner Akcam, who argues that Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink’s murder was orchestrated as revenge for the assassination of Talat Pasha, the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, The Armenian Weekly reported.“Hrant Dink was murdered in order to avenge Talat Pasha’s murder,” Akcam believes.“Everything, and I mean...
Members of European Parliament have declared they are disappointed with a Turkish court verdict on Hrant Dinks, editor-in-Chief of Agos daily, murder case, Turkish Sondakika.com reported.
Ria Oomen-Ruijten, European Parliaments rapporteur ...
At least 20,000 people have marched in Istanbul to mark five years since the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Some of the demonstrators were driven by anger over verdicts delivered this week in the latest trial of people linked ...
Thousands of people walked from Taksim to the office of the Agos newspaper in Şişli to commemorate Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink at the place he was killed five years ago. Two days after the Dink trial was concluded, banners reading "This trial will not end that way" were dominating the scene.
[...] killer, Ogun Samast, was jailed last year, but the end this week of the trial of others involved continues to leave many questions relating to official involvement in the assassination unanswered. [...]
BBC Europe - Hrant Dink was at the forefront of efforts in Turkey to shatter the long taboo surrounding the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It remains one of the most sensitive issues in Turkey today.
Herald Tribune - ISTANBUL: Ogun Samast, the 17-year- old who was arrested in connection with the slaying of a leading Turkish journalist, probably would never have imagined setting foot on a private p
Herald Tribune - ISTANBUL, Turkey: Istanbul governor Muammer Guler said three people were arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Hrant Dink earlier on Friday, CNN-Turk television reporte
Guardian Unlimited - Hrant Dink, who was assassinated aged 52 outside the Istanbul offices of Agos, the Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper that he edited, was the most prominent advocate of mutual resp