Hrant Dink

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <p>Preface to the Transaction Edition<br><em>Tuba candar</em></p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Introduction to the Transaction Edition x<br><em>Gerard J. Libaridian</em></p><p>Guide to Turkish Pronunciation</p><p>Rakel's Letter</p><p>My Hrant</p><p>Lying on the Pavement</p><p>Raising Hrant from The Pavement</p><p>Book One: Khent Hrant</p><p>Part I: An Abandoned Child</p><p>1 The Hamam of the Infidels</p><p>2 The Fisherman's Basket</p><p>3 The Orphanage</p><p>4 The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: The Armenian Children's Camp</p><p>Part II: Madcap<br>5 Heartbreaker<br><br>6 First Rebellion</p><p>7 A New Name and a New Life</p><p>Part III: Eternal Love</p><p>8 Rakel, the Girl from the Mountains</p><p>9 Love at First Sight</p><p>10 Happily Ever After</p><p>Part IV: The Struggle to Make a Living</p><p>11 The First Family Business</p><p>12 A Student Like No Other</p><p>Part V: The Dissident</p><p>13 The Swallow's Nest</p><p>14 The Ballad of the Prisons</p><p>15 The Company of Suspect Soldiers</p><p>Part VI: The Businessman</p><p>16 Beyaz Adam (The White Man)</p><p>17 The Gambler</p><p>Part VII: Family Man</p><p>18 Three Apples Fall from the Sky</p><p>19 The Dink Brothers</p><p>Part VIII: A Sad Farewell</p><p>20 The Lost Letter</p><p>Book Two: Baron Hrant</p><p>Part I: Looking</p><p>21 Hrant's Agos</p><p>22 From the Agos Perspective</p><p>23 A World Called Agos</p><p>Part II: Touching</p><p>24 An Armenian in Turkey</p><p>25 A Turkish Armenian in the Armenian World</p><p>Part III: Seeing</p><p>26 The Road to Recovery</p><p>Part IV: Knowing</p><p>27 The Beginning of the End</p><p>28 The Hunt</p><p>29 Fluttering Like a Pigeon</p><p>Part V: Dying</p><p>30 A Time for Psalms</p><p>31 Last Embrace</p><p>Epilogue</p><p>Hrant Dink: A Chronology</p><p><em>The Voices in the Book</em></p><p>Glossary</p>