PROTESTERS DEDICATE A STREET TO SLAIN JOURNALIST HRANT DINK IN GEZI PARK
10:02 06.06.2013
Hrant Dink, Turkey
The demonstrators now freely occupying Istanbul’s Gezi Park for the
last few days opened June 5 a symbolic street dedicated to the murdered
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Hundreds of activists had also opened “the peace square” a day earlier
by singing songs and chanting in Turkish and Kurdish. The Hrant Dink
Street connects the Peace Square with the children’s playground.
Activists have brandished banners reading “Buradayız Ahparig!” (We
are here, brother), the slogan chosen for the commemoration of the
6th anniversary of Dink’s murder earlier this year.
Dink was murdered on Jan. 19, 2007, in broad daylight in front
of the Agos building by Ogun Samast, a 17-year-old Turkish
nationalist. His death lead to a long period of mass protests during
which demonstrations famously chanted “We are all Armenians.”
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