I’ve grown to admire Elif Shafak’s opinions, especially nowadays as they give us a solid preview of what life can be like for a progressive Turkish contemporary writer/intellectual living and working in a post Hrant Dink world.
Listen to this recent interview on NPR’s Fresh Air radio program and please share your thoughts:
In this particular […]
Armenianow.com had an interesting article “Present and Future Power Debate: Who will be the choices in 2008?” which examines the possible scenarios of political developments, probable candidates and the effects of these decisions on the political life in the country. However, all the arguments brought to and for this or that candidate in the article […]
A video grab released by Turkish police shows an image of a man suspected of killing journalist Hrant Dink, one of Turkey’s most prominent ethnic Armenians, as the government came under fire for failing to protect him despite nationalist threats.(AFP/HO)
According to a recent AP news release, Turkish Police detained a suspect early today in 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 […]
RFE/RL reports that the republic is once again considered “Partly Free” by Freedom House. RFE/RL quotes the U.S. based organization as laying the blame firmly on a “limited respect for political rights and civil liberties.â€
The Washington-based group again evaluated the state of political rights and civil liberties in each of the 193 countries surveyed […]
Opposition demonstration, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004
Via Martuni of Bust, RFE/RL reports that in its first-ever ruling on Armenia, the European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled against the arrest of an opposition activist at an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan’s Liberty Square four years ago. One can […]
While UK, at least for myself, appears as the fore-post of democracy in the world, Armenia in line with a number of other former Soviet States, has become one of the labs where the huge Russian experiment on developing a form of Contained Democracy - a democratic imitation is undertaken.
Well, it’s good to see more specialist blogs appear in Armenia and the South Caucasus that not only exist to assist in research on certain issues, but to also disseminate the results of studies that already have been completed. In particular, the CRRC Blog includes details of a study examining how schoolchildren view the rule […]
