Hundreds protested on Istanbul’s streets following the daylight murder of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish journalist of Armenian descent. Photo by AP/WN
Politics: 20 January 2007, Saturday.
The Armenian government has condemned the murder in Istanbul of a prominent Turkish journalist of Armenian descent.
The speaker of Armenia’s parliament Tigran Torosyan said the murder showed that Turkey should not even dream about joining the European Union.
Hrant Dink’s murder on Friday sparked a protest by thousands of people where he was shot near his newspaper’s offices.
He had written extensively about the massacre of Armenians during the final days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
Journalists and politicians in Turkey have expressed outrage at the killing, which many described as a political assassination, while the US, EU, France, and several human rights groups also voiced shock and condemnation.
Police said Hrant Dink was shot twice. Late on Friday, Turkish media quoted Istanbul’s governor as saying three people were in custody over the killing.
An educated and generous journalist and academic – editor of the weekly Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos – he tried to create a dialogue between the two nations to reach a common narrative of the 20th century’s first holocaust.
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