Prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot useless outdoors the Agos newspaper’s workplace in Istanbul in 2007, was commemorated in a ceremony on Thursday.
During the commemoration outdoors the newspaper’s former constructing within the Şişli district, pink carnations, candles and pomegranates, in addition to Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian banners and an Agos newspaper have been left on the web site the place Dink was gunned down on Jan. 19, 2007.
“Your faith, hope and courage are with us. We are with you Ahparig (my brother). We have been here for 16 years,” learn a poster on the constructing.
Participants chanted slogans in Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian and carried placards whereas listening to Dink’s voice from the balcony. Some got here sporting scarves with Dink’s picture.
Film director Emin Alper stated the bulk needed to make the minority invisible, to silence and destroy it.
Alper stated Dink, then editor-in-chief of Agos, was a courageous one that might converse actually with out being provocative and a socialist who fought not just for the Armenians however for all of the oppressed and silenced.
Dink’s household, kin and pals, in addition to Turkish politicians, attended the ceremony. The Halaskargazi Street was closed to site visitors throughout the ceremony the place intense safety measures have been in place.
