"Hrant Dink: forging an Armenian identity in Turkey
Üstün Bilgen-Reinart
7 - 2 - 2006
The Armenian-Turkish journalist is deeply hurt by a recent court sentence but he remains hopeful about Turkey's future, reports Üstün Bilgen-Reinart.
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On 8 October 2005, a court in Şişli, Istanbul sentenced Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of Agos, the only Armenian newspaper in Turkey, to six months in prison (suspended for good behaviour), for having written an article that 'insulted and belittled Turkishness'. He still faces charges for remarks he made at a conference in Urfa, southeastern Turkey in December 2002; and in December 2005 another suit was opened against him and two Agos colleagues by the Turkish Union of Lawyers. These two additional cases carry possible sentences of six years and four-and-a-half years respectively; the first comes to court on Thursday 9 February 2006."
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