ABSTRACT
This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007.As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky undertaking, in a country where Armenians live as closed communities; it was also unprecedented in Turkey. Dink was prosecuted three times for "insulting and denigrating Turkishness" and ultimately convicted.The biography is written as an oral history, and assembles a mosaic of memories as told by Dink's family, friends, and comrades. Dink's own "voice," in the form of his writings, is also included. Originally published in Turkey, it is now available for an English-speaking audience on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|176 pages
Khent Hrant
part I|34 pages
An Abandoned Child
part II|24 pages
Madcap
part III|24 pages
Eternal Love
part IV|14 pages
The Struggle to Make a Living
part V|22 pages
The Dissident
part VI|20 pages
The Businessman
part VII|26 pages
Family Man
part VIII|10 pages
A Sad Farewell
part Two|168 pages
Baron Hrant
part I|50 pages
Looking
part II|42 pages
Touching
part III|14 pages
Seeing
part IV|50 pages
Knowing
part V|10 pages
Dying