Posts Tagged ‘Hrant Dink’

US Armenian ‘genocide’ vote a chance for Turkey

March 5th, 2010

Congress’s resolution condemning the 1915 Armenian genocide gives Turkey a chance to disavow a grotesque state crime and abandon its hideous charade of bullying, propaganda and falsified history says Nouritza Matossian
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Turkish-Armenian newspaper website hacked

February 15th, 2010

Hackers took control of the website of Agos, a leading Turkish-Armenian newspaper  last Friday, the cyber-attackers uploaded images of the alleged murderer of the newspaper’s former editor-in-chief, and winner of the Index on Censorship’s 2008 journalism award, Hrant Dink. The hackers claimed  there would be more of the same if the newspaper did not fix its reporting to “the way we see fit”. Agos has regularly published articles about the Armenian genocide.

Commemorating Hrant Dink: “Let’s talk about the living”

January 19th, 2010


Editor Hrant Dink was killed on 19 January 2007. In this interview with Nouritza Matossian, published in Index on Censorship magazine shortly after his death, Dink described his commitment to free expression and reconciliation between Armenians and Turks
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Turkish journalist facing 28 years in prison

June 10th, 2009

Reporter Nedim Sener who has written a book about the murder of journalist Hrant Dink, faces up to 28 years in prison after police officers filed complaints against him. Read more here

Dink police acquitted

October 23rd, 2008

Two Turkish policeman charged with abusing their office after posing for photographs with the lead suspect in the murder of Hrant Dink have been acquitted. (more…)

Who killed Hrant Dink?

July 7th, 2008


As the murder trial continues this week in Turkey, the investigation remains far from complete. Jo Glanville spoke to Dink family lawyer Fethiye Çetin about the case
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Turkey: Dink trial resumes today

February 25th, 2008

Hrant DinkThe alleged killers of journalist Hrant Dink return to court today, with many groups expressing misgivings about the conduct of their trial, writes Charlotte Alfred

The fourth hearing in the trial of suspects accused of killing Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian editor of Agos, starts today in Istanbul, amid widespread concern over the inadequacy of the Turkish investigation into the murder.

Dink was assassinated outside the newspaper’s offices in Istanbul on 19 January 2007. Ogun Samast, a teenage ultra-nationalist, was arrested the day after the murder and reportedly confessed to the killing. A total of 18 suspects, including Samast, were later charged with planning and organising the murder.

Over more than a year of investigations, Turkish and European lawyers and human rights organisations have stressed the importance of a fair and transparent process, and highlighted the case as a test of the rule of law in Turkey.

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PAST EVENT: For Hrant, for Justice: the ongoing struggle for freedom of expression in Turkey

February 25th, 2008

Documentary screening and panel discussion

For Hrant, for Justice: the ongoing struggle for freedom of expression in Turkey

7pm Thursday 28 February 2008
Amnesty International UK – The Human Rights Action Centre

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