Turkey screams: "We Are All Armenian, We Are All Hrant Dink!"
Humanity has lost one of its dear sons who devoted himself to the cause of the oppressed and the laborers in their struggle for a honorable life; Humanity has lost a distinguished intellectual who, appreciating the trauma haunting the Turkish people and conscious of the tragedies of the Armenian people, fights to foster the courage to face the history in everyone living in this land.
And this country, the different peoples in this country witnessed anew a bullet shot to the opportunity to live together in a free and democratic environment.
Turkey without Hrant Dink is bitter and barren. Today claiming Hrants struggle and the values held dear by him is a must for those who want to live as honorable citizens of this country.
The assassins are not the only responsible of this vile murder. Those so called opinion leaders who label as treachery every dissenting view on the Armenian deportation during the Great War, those insolent groups who create a caricature of the left by mingling the anti imperialist rhetoric with outright nationalism blended by racist hysteria and those fake intellectuals who try to disseminate intolerance and even support lynching orgies against deviants can also claim gracefully a stake in this monstrous crime.
Presenting deporting seventy thousand Armenians who came to Turkey looking for jobs as a legitimate policy alternative; defending democratic values while using the 301st article of the Turkish penal code as a weapon against dissenters; incriminating people struggling to unearth the buried truths of the dark pages of Turkish recent history; showing active hostility to everyone who deviates from established modes of thought and expressing themselves in an upright and decent manner; refraining from taking any precaution to protect someone who receives daily death threats while these threats are well known and even made public by the threatened
in his column, are all coalesced to pave the way for this atrocious and infuriating result that we face today.
After Hrant was massacred some, in a desperate attempt to conceal their guilt in front of the Turkish public, declared that the bullet to Hrant is a bullet against Turkey. This is in vain, what they must do is to reevaluate their past deeds with remorse and conscience if they still possess a little bit of these values. If they dont then they must stay silent, at least to be considered human beings by the great judge we call history.
WE ARE ALL HRANT, WE ARE ALL ARMENIAN
And this country, the different peoples in this country witnessed anew a bullet shot to the opportunity to live together in a free and democratic environment.
Turkey without Hrant Dink is bitter and barren. Today claiming Hrants struggle and the values held dear by him is a must for those who want to live as honorable citizens of this country.
The assassins are not the only responsible of this vile murder. Those so called opinion leaders who label as treachery every dissenting view on the Armenian deportation during the Great War, those insolent groups who create a caricature of the left by mingling the anti imperialist rhetoric with outright nationalism blended by racist hysteria and those fake intellectuals who try to disseminate intolerance and even support lynching orgies against deviants can also claim gracefully a stake in this monstrous crime.
Presenting deporting seventy thousand Armenians who came to Turkey looking for jobs as a legitimate policy alternative; defending democratic values while using the 301st article of the Turkish penal code as a weapon against dissenters; incriminating people struggling to unearth the buried truths of the dark pages of Turkish recent history; showing active hostility to everyone who deviates from established modes of thought and expressing themselves in an upright and decent manner; refraining from taking any precaution to protect someone who receives daily death threats while these threats are well known and even made public by the threatened
in his column, are all coalesced to pave the way for this atrocious and infuriating result that we face today.
After Hrant was massacred some, in a desperate attempt to conceal their guilt in front of the Turkish public, declared that the bullet to Hrant is a bullet against Turkey. This is in vain, what they must do is to reevaluate their past deeds with remorse and conscience if they still possess a little bit of these values. If they dont then they must stay silent, at least to be considered human beings by the great judge we call history.
WE ARE ALL HRANT, WE ARE ALL ARMENIAN
Resource: http://www.odpkadikoy.org/hrantdink.htm
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