http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/two-years-after-the-murder_508/ Frederike Geerdink's weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/two-years-after-the-murder_508/comment-page-1/#comment-808 V Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:20:37 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=508#comment-808 I just had an intense discussion with my Turkish friends, intellectuals and archaeologists working now in the US, when they posted Hrant Dink's foto as their foto on their facebook profile. I wanted to talk about what it really means when someone says "I am Hrant Dink" which simply sounded odd and disrespectful almost, the first time I heard it while living and working in Turkey when this incident happened, and again when I saw it while back here in the US. We would never say here, for example, I am MLK, or I am Black. It is our differences and through celebrating it that we come to a peaceful dialogue. It seems even my intelligent, intellectual, academic Turkish friends didn't understand me. BTW. When this happened, I was teaching at a university in Turkey and believe me it was impossible to reconcile what I had seen as a genuine and generous outpouring of emotions on the streets of Istanbul, and complete silence about the whole thing at the campus. I mean, nothing, zero. An incident that would, in many US campuses provoke vigorous discussions. I just had an intense discussion with my Turkish friends, intellectuals and archaeologists working now in the US, when they posted Hrant Dink’s foto as their foto on their facebook profile. I wanted to talk about what it really means when someone says “I am Hrant Dink” which simply sounded odd and disrespectful almost, the first time I heard it while living and working in Turkey when this incident happened, and again when I saw it while back here in the US. We would never say here, for example, I am MLK, or I am Black. It is our differences and through celebrating it that we come to a peaceful dialogue. It seems even my intelligent, intellectual, academic Turkish friends didn’t understand me. BTW. When this happened, I was teaching at a university in Turkey and believe me it was impossible to reconcile what I had seen as a genuine and generous outpouring of emotions on the streets of Istanbul, and complete silence about the whole thing at the campus. I mean, nothing, zero. An incident that would, in many US campuses provoke vigorous discussions.

]]> http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/two-years-after-the-murder_508/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Global Voices Online » Turkey: Hrant Dink Murder Unresolved Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:13:12 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=508#comment-802 [...] anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor, Hrant Dink. The blog says that two years later there is no political will in Turkey to bring the masterminds of the killi.... Posted by Onnik Krikorian  Print version Share [...] [...] anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor, Hrant Dink. The blog says that two years later there is no political will in Turkey to bring the masterminds of the killi…. Posted by Onnik Krikorian  Print version Share [...]

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