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.

About the Author
Tuba Candar, the author, is a Turkish writer and journalist. Gerard Libaridian is editor of Transaction's Armenian Studies series. Maureen Freely, who translated this work, is a novelist and a professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Reviews
Dink was a hero in Turkey. Now, finally, the English-language reader gets to read about him, with the publication of the English version of Tuba Candar's magnificent 2010 biography. The English subtitle is An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey. Candar's brilliant method is to make this a book of voices. It is a sound tapestry consisting of dozens of voices of Dink's family, friends, and colleagues, a biography as a polyphonic oral history. -Strategic Europe



Book Information
ISBN 9781412862684
Author Tuba Candar
Format Paperback
Page Count 404
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 521g