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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Silence is a killer - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"Silence is a killer

TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Tulin Daloglu
January 23, 2007

'I may see myself as frightened as a pigeon, but I know that in this country people do not touch pigeons,' wrote Hrant Dink, the beloved Armenian Turkish journalist, in his last column on Friday. Today, thousands will attend his funeral service in Istanbul, expressing their pain at his murder and their shame over losing him, the first Armenian-Turk to fall victim to a political murder. Turks have also taken to the streets to support 'freedom of speech' at this magnitude for the first time in the republic's history. "

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