January 19 – there are eight, Hrand Dink was cowardly assassinated in Istanbul in front of the offices of his Agos newspaper. Eight years after the tragic death of one who always sought to do justice to the Armenians in Turkey itself, the one who wanted the Turkish civil society and thus the Turkish state to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 that Turkey finds his memory and History, who strongly denounced all obscurantism of the Turkish company first and foremost the State itself, so that one, we still lack Hrand Dink.
In January 19, 2015, in the centenary year of the Armenian Genocide, we have a thought for him, for his family and friends.
Eight years later we are still waiting for justice is Turkish and condemns not only the author but also all the sponsors, all the inspirers of this crime. Eight years later, we still expect that Turkey makes justice to the Armenian people by recognizing and repairing the Genocide crime committed in 1915. Eight years later, we still expect Turkey to end its denial policy with regard to the Armenian Genocide, it ceases to finance pseudo deniers research institutes, it ceases its denial propaganda in France based on the most extreme fringes of her community, she continues to support the ultra nationalist Turks that still threaten including physically, everyone in Turkey want to tell the truth about the Armenian Genocide. Eight years later, we still expect that Turkey continues its discriminatory policy, hateful, racist against the Armenians of Turkey but also Diaspora.
Eight years later, we see nothing on the horizon and even less since Erdogan’s election as head of state who week after week, gives the world his vision of Turkey, delusional, megalomaniacal and to be honest dangerous for peace and stability in the region. If Hrand Dink was among us, he would certainly be a fierce opponent of Mr Erdogan, with his words, with his ideas with his humor, but he could not accept the authoritarian and anti-democratic Turkey. He would certainly denounced Turkey this weapon, trains and assists Islamic terrorists against its Armenian brothers, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, Muslims of Syria and Iraq.
Yes, eight years later, we still think of you Hrand Dink.
Jean Eckian © armenews.com