PROTESTERS DEDICATE A STREET TO SLAIN JOURNALIST HRANT DINK IN GEZI PARK
Hurriyet, Turkey
June 6 2013
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.
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.”
June/06/2013
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