Hrant Dink - An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007.

As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky undertaking, in a country where Armenians live as closed communities; it was also unprecedented in Turkey. Dink was prosecuted three times for "insulting and denigrating Turkishness" and ultimately convicted.

The biography is written as an oral history, and assembles a mosaic of memories as told by Dink's family, friends, and comrades. Dink's own "voice," in the form of his writings, is also included. Originally published in Turkey, it is now available for an English-speaking audience on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

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Preface to the Transaction Edition Tuba candarAcknowledgementsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition x Gerard J. LibaridianGuide to Turkish PronunciationRakel's LetterMy HrantLying on the PavementRaising Hrant from The PavementBook One: Khent HrantPart I: An Abandoned Child1 The Hamam of the Infidels2 The Fisherman's Basket3 The Orphanage4 The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: The Armenian Children's CampPart II: Madcap 5 Heartbreaker 6 First Rebellion7 A New Name and a New LifePart III: Eternal Love8 Rakel, the Girl from the Mountains9 Love at First Sight10 Happily Ever AfterPart IV: The Struggle to Make a Living11 The First Family Business12 A Student Like No OtherPart V: The Dissident13 The Swallow's Nest14 The Ballad of the Prisons15 The Company of Suspect SoldiersPart VI: The Businessman16 Beyaz Adam (The White Man)17 The GamblerPart VII: Family Man18 Three Apples Fall from the Sky19 The Dink BrothersPart VIII: A Sad Farewell20 The Lost LetterBook Two: Baron HrantPart I: Looking21 Hrant's Agos22 From the Agos Perspective23 A World Called AgosPart II: Touching24 An Armenian in Turkey25 A Turkish Armenian in the Armenian WorldPart III: Seeing26 The Road to RecoveryPart IV: Knowing27 The Beginning of the End28 The Hunt29 Fluttering Like a PigeonPart V: Dying30 A Time for Psalms31 Last EmbraceEpilogueHrant Dink: A ChronologyThe Voices in the BookGlossary