Hrant Dink

Journalist, Award Winner

1954 – 2007

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Who was Hrant Dink?

Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist.

As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey. Dink was best known for advocating Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey; he was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide, and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.

Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007, by Ogün Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly after the premiere of the genocide documentary Screamers, in which he is interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the case against him under Article 301. While Samast has since been taken into custody, photographs of the assassin flanked by smiling Turkish police and gendarmerie, posing with the killer side by side in front of the Turkish flag, have since surfaced. The photos created a scandal in Turkey, prompting a spate of investigations and the removal from office of those involved.

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Born
Sep 15, 1954
Malatya
Also known as
  • Fırat Dink
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Christianity
Ethnicity
  • Armenians
Nationality
  • Armenia
  • Turkey
Profession
Education
  • Istanbul University
Lived in
  • Malatya
  • Istanbul
Died
Jan 19, 2007
Istanbul

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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