Category: Hrant Dink
Uncovering Paradoxes: Playwright Kelly Stuart’s Narrative Journey
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — Kelly Stuart is not only a playwright; she is a fearless storyteller who immerses herself in the complexities of the human condition. Along with teaching courses at Columbia’s School for the Arts (SoA), Stuart has traveled to Turkey nine times to explore various facets of life there [...]
Dink Anniversary Commemorated at St. James
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — The numbers six and 17 played a symbolic role in the January 20 talk delivered by Ümit Kurt during a post-service program hosted by the Friends of Hrant Dink at St. James Armenian Church. These numbers served as a reminder of the loss of the Turkish-Armenian journalist — [...]
Dink Assassination Anniversary Commemorated
ISTANBUL (Combined Sources) — Thousands of people gathered in the Sisli district of Istanbul to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin on January 19. The crowd stood in homage at 3:05 p.m., the exact time of Dink’s death, in front of the Agos newspaper building [...]
Ministry Appeals Dink Payment Ruling
ISTANBUL (Radikal) — Turkey’s Interior Ministry has denied any responsibility in Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s assassination, claiming in a failed appeal to the Council of State that paying compensation to the man’s family would lead to “unjustified enrichment.”
Hrant Dink Park Opens in Mersin
MERSIN, Turkey (Firant news agency) — BDP’s Mersin Akdeniz Municipality has named a park and built a monument, both in honor of Hrant Dink. Dink, chief editor of the bilingual newspaper Agos, was murdered on January 19, 2007.
The Year in Review: 2010
JANUARY • One of the “leftovers of the sword,” Fethiye Cetin, 60, a prominent civil rights attorney in Turkey, had her sense of identity shattered when she learned from her grandmother that she was one of thousands of Armenian children who were kidnapped and adopted by Turkish families during the period of the Armenian Genocide.
Report from Turkey: Hrant Dink’s Spirit Lives
By Daphne Abeel Special to Mirror-Spectator ISTANBUL — I had been motivated to travel to Turkey as a result of my association with the Armenian Mirror-Spectator, where I worked as the assistant editor for eight years and where I continue to work as a freelance writer.
Turkish Journalist Shares Her Armenian Journey
By Thomas C . Nash Special to the Mirror-Spectator WATERTOWN, Mass. — In 2006, Ece Temelkuran published a series of articles about a trip to Armenia — her first — in which she hoped her Turkish readers would join her in learning to understand their neighbors.
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