"WE ARE ALL FROM TRABZON, WE ARE ALL TURKS, WE ARE ALL OGUN SAMAST, WE ARE ALL ALI AGCA"
By H. Chaqrian
AZG Armenian Daily
08/02/2007
Turkish Mob Makes Heroes of the Murderers
In an earlier publication by "Azg", entitled "About to Kiss the
Murderer’s Forehead", we reported how Ogun Samast, murderer of Hrant
Dink was welcomed as a hero at the Anti-Terrorist Department of the
Samsun branch of the Turkish Seciruty Service. Later "Miliet" informed
about new demonstrations of support for Yasin Hayal, arranger of the
murder, and stressed that the demonstration participants expressed
their hatred towards writer Orhan Pamuk, Patriarch Mesrob Mutafian and
"Zaman" newspaper editor Etienne Mahjupian.
The website of the Turkish "Felitispor" football club, were Yasin
Hayal was playing, is full of visitors’ messages expressing support
and enthusiasm about Hayal’s and Samast’s deed. In spite of protest
of mass media, those messages still remain on the website.
Moreover a new forum was opened on the Felitispor website. The forum is
dedicated to threats and menaces addressed to Pamuk, Mutafian and other
liberal personalities. Posts with the following content can be found
on the forum: "The bullet will reach every single enemy of Turkey",
"I am always with you, Ogun Samast", "We Are All from Trabzon, We
Are All Turks, We Are All Ogun Samast, We Are All Ali Agca", and so
on. On a recent football match at Afonkarahisar’s Ataturk Stadium the
all the tribunes started shouting "We Are All Ogun", and some of the
football fans put on white hats, following the example of the murderer.
Thus we face not only cowardness of a planned assassination, but
also outrageous barbarianism of the Turkish mob, so enthusiastically
welcoming the murderer. Now it seems of very little importance who
has shot the gun on Hrant Dink, and who has taken photos with the
murderer at the security service’s office, because thousands consider
themselves willing to repeat the "exploit".