Hrant Dink
Kamp Armen donated to Armenians, demolition plan shelved
Delighted Armenians have celebrated victory after a controversial demolition plan for Kamp Armen was shelved, as the land owner of the building donated it to an Armenian foundation.
Demolition of Istanbul Armenian orphanage pauses, amid outcry
Efforts to demolish Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul's Tuzla district that was expropriated in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, began early May 6.
Countdown starts to opening of 'Respiro'
?Respiro,? an installation by influential conceptual artist Sarkis, will be on view in the Pavilion of Turkey at the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice from May 7 to November 22.
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Turkish nationalist group lays wreath in front of Armenian newspaper
A group of Turkish nationalists left black wreaths in front of Agos, the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly, in the early hours of April 24 in an apparently aggressive move against the newspaper, whose editor Hrant Dink was murder by a nationalist in 2007.
Beyond the genocide debate
?Prime Minister Erdo?an?s statement of condolence to the Armenians was a milestone in Turkey?s history.?
This was the first sentence of my column in daily Hürriyet on April 26 last year.
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Armenians and Turks in the shadow of 1915
'Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide' by Thomas de Waal
(Oxford University Press, 312 pages, $29.95)
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Veteran Armenian-Turkish editor dies at 80
Sarkis Seropyan, the veteran editor of Istanbul-based weekly Agos' Armenian language pages, has passed away at the age of 80.
Seropyan died on March 28 after succumbing to pancreatic cancer, news portal T24 reported.
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Probe opened into inspectors for 'clearing police chiefs' of role in Dink murder
A probe has been opened into the two Interior Ministry inspectors who allegedly covered up the acts of police chiefs in the murder of Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, daily Yeni ?afak reported on March 2.
Former Turkish police intelligence chief sent to jail in Dink murder case
Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, sent to prison over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, was sent to prison late on Feb. 27 over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, according to police sources.
The ever-reinterpreted Hrant Dink murder
On Jan. 17, 2007, Hrant Dink, a Turkish Armenian intellectual and the editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based Armenian daily newspaper, Agos, was assassinated right outside his office in one of the busiest streets in the country. The assassin, Ogün Samast, was a 17-year-old ultra-nationalist from Trabzon, a Black Sea town known for its tough guys and nationalist circles.
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