No Turkish-Armenian can replace Dink – opinion

No Turkish-Armenian can replace Dink – opinion

tert.am
20:40 – 19.01.13

No single member of Turkey’s Armenian community can be considered the
successor of Hrant Dink, though a small group of individuals are the
bearers of his ideology, Armenian Turkologist has told reporters.

At a news conference on Saturday, Dead of the Yerevan State
University’s Oriental Studies Department Ruben Melkonyan said that
Turkey, as a country experiencing hatred for the Armenians, proved its
anti-Armenian positions yet another time, through the investigation of
the Dink murder case. He noted that European organizations treat
Turkish officials’ statements as just promises heralding no progress.

`Both the international media and legal services have a clear position
on the Dink assassination – that it was committed against an ethnic
background, through silencing free speech,’ he said,

A prosecutor investigating the circumstances of the Turkish-Armenian
journalist’s murder recently called for revising the case to calm
passions in the society and cut a more democratic figure of Turkey in
the eyes of European organizations.

`The Turkish authorities guide themselves by the same traditions as
did the Ottoman Empire,’ Melkonyan said, commenting on Turkey’s
current policies.