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Turkey/Armenia: Hrant Dink Murdered

Onnik Krikorian has multiple posts on the murder of Hrant Dink, a journalist who was an ethnic Armenian Turkish citizen who had been given a six month suspended sentence in 2005 for writing on the Armenian Genocide. Be sure to check out his roundup of discussion of the murder in the Turkish blogosphere.

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[...] states separated by the biblical mount Ararat and an unholy history. When ethnic Armenian Hrant Dinkwas assassinated in front of the Istanbul office of the Agos Armenian weekly newspaper he edited on 19 January 2007, [...]

# 2009-01-20 at 11:05 am
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[...] ژانویه 2007 در مقابل دفتر هفته نامه آگوس که ویراستارش بود در استامبول ترور شد، هزاران شهروند ترک در تظاهرات خاکسپاریش شعار “ما [...]

# 2009-02-10 at 21:39 pm

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