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Saturday, January 20, 2007

A journalist's dangerous mission - The Boston Globe

"A journalist's dangerous mission
Hrant Dink was killed yesterday. Hrant Dink was killed yesterday. (Roland Magunia/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

By Stephen Kinzer | January 20, 2007

THE LAST TIME I met Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist who was murdered in Istanbul yesterday, I felt a sudden need to do more than just exchange pleasantries. This was several months ago, and we were sampling one of Turkey's great delights, dinner aboard a boat cruising the Bosphorus. Life for Dink, however, had become less than delightful. He was being fiercely denounced by the ultra nationalist press, and seemed subdued and preoccupied."

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