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PRESS RELEASE
The Armenian journalist Hrant Dink receives the Henri Nannen price 2006 for Pressefreiheit: “It gives to its people a voice”
The honor to the publisher of the Armenian-Turkish weekly paper “Agos” becomes in the context of the solemn award of the prize to 12. May 2006 in the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg presents
Hamburg, 3. May 2006
The Armenian journalist and publisher of the bilingual weekly paper “Agos” Hrant Dink becomes to 12. May 2006 of the publishing house Gruner + to year and the magazine STAR for its commitment of the suppressed Armenian minority in the Turkey of the Henri Nannen price for its earnings/services to the Pressefreiheit lent. Dink “gives a voice to its people and is languageraw of the invisible ones”, is called it in one star-haven-guessed/advised (expenditure 19 of 4.05.2006). With absurd reproaches the law in Turkey Dink pursues. Three times he was sued in the past months because of “offense of the Türkentums”, because he broke through the wall of the silence and the fear, behind which the Turkish Armenians up to then lived.
“Agos” is the first Armenian newspaper, in which politically delicate topics are not avoided, but are not openly discussed – and the only one, which appears bilingual, so that it is accessible for Turks also. The edition is tiny – 6,000 copies are sold weekly -, but the echo is enormous. Since that time the Armenian minority has a voice, and a mirror is reproached to the Turkish majority for the first time.
Hrant Dink, born 1954 grown up in Malatya in the southeast of Turkey and after the separation of its parents in Armenian orphanages in Istanbul, is “a typical product of this education”, as he says. “I went on Armenian schools, but those differ only by the language from Turkish institutions. As a child I did not know anything about our history, and already nothing at all from the genocide. Only as an adult I experienced that one of my grandfathers was a survivor of the massacres and that members of my family in the Near East, which the USA live and in Armenia, where they emigrierten after driving out.”
The publishing house Gruner + the STAR lend the Henri Nannen price to year us in this year for the second time. For the price for the best work of the yearly, written out designated after that the 1996 deceased STAR founder Henri Nannen, in five categories, applied journalists with contributions from 191 German-language newspapers, magazines and magazines. The price is endowed in each category with 5.000 euro.
All nominated work as well as numerous further information are under www.henri-nannen-preis.de in the Internet.
For further inquiries:
Dr. Andreas Knaut
Line Gruner + year public work
Telephone: +49 40 3703 3113
E-Mail: knaut.andreas@guj.de
Kurt Otto
Leader STAR market communication
Telephone: +49 40 3703 3810
E-Mail: otto.kurt@guj.de
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