Wikipedia now has an updated page on Hrant Dink which also now details his assassination as well as life and career.
According to eye witnesses, he was shot by a man of 25-30 years of age, who fired three shots to Dink’s head at point blank range before fleeing the scene on foot. According to the […]
As the murder of Hrant Dink in Istanbul will continue to dominate the blogosphere in the next few days, I think it’s particularly important to look at what Turkish bloggers have to say on the matter. As I mentioned in my first post, and as implied by the condemnations issued by international media and writers’ […]
Following the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor Hrant Dink in Istanbul, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) and International Pen have issued strong condemnations. In particular, RSF is supporting calls for a demonstration which will be held outside the Turkish Embassy in Paris.
No doubt similar demonstrations will […]
Hrant Dink, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2005
The BBC reports that Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink has been murdered in Istanbul. According to the report, Dink was shot three times outside of the office of the Agos weekly newspaper he edited. Oneworld Multimedia expresses its condolences to Dink’s family and calls […]
Via the International Herald Tribune, The Associated Press reports that four Yezidis, including three children, set themselves on fire today. The act of self immolation was in protest at the inaction of the police in investigating the death of the children’s father. Their grandmother also set herself on fire opposite the Presidential Palace on Yerevan’s […]
The BBC reports that former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko died last night in a London hospital after apparently being poisoned at the beginning of November. According to the report, Litvinenko was investigating last month’s murder of Anna Politkovskaya and dictated a letter in his final hours accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind his […]
Nothing to do with Armenia, apart from relatively close proximity and an Armenian minority, but the BBC reports that the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Hussein will apparently be hung.
The former Iraqi president was convicted by a Baghdad court for his role […]
Following on from last week’s passage of a bill by Parliament that will make denial of the Genocide illegal in France comes news from the BBC that a memorial to 1.5 million Armenians that died in Ottoman Turkey has been stolen. Given the timing of the two events it is believed that both are linked.
The […]
RFE/RL carries more on Hakob Hakobian, the Armenian MP recently arrested for hooliganism and armed assault. According to RFE/RL it looks likely that backroom deals will decide the MP’s fate rather than the rule of law. No surprise there, then.
Hakob Hakobian, a controversial parliamentarian who has spent threes days in custody for allegedly provoking a […]
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has two articles dedicated to the murdered Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. In the first, Tom de Waal remembers the “defender of ordinary people’s rights.”
Some people who work in conflict zones have walked with death for so long that they seem untouched by it and only more alive. […]
