By Narine Daneghyan Senior Reporter Youth Journalism International YEREVAN, Armenia – A little more than five years ago, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul. I will never forget the day he died. My family was gathered in the living room, watching television, when a breaking news report began. Dink, who had the courage to raise the taboo subject of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, had been gunned down. Well known in both Armenia and Turkey, Dink was an outspoken advocate for peace between the two bitterly estranged nations. Hrant Dink But rabid Turkish nationalists hated him because he spoke openly about the killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the genocide that began during World War I. Dink once said that Armenians “all have an intuition about something broken in the past. It’s in our genetic … Read entire article »

By Narine Daneghyan Senior Reporter Youth Journalism International YEREVAN, Armenia – A little more than five years ago, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul. I will never forget the day he died. My family was gathered in the living room, watching television, when a breaking news report began. Dink, who had the courage to raise the taboo subject of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, had been gunned down. Well known in both Armenia and Turkey, Dink was an outspoken advocate for peace between the two bitterly estranged nations. Hrant Dink But rabid Turkish nationalists hated him because he spoke openly about the killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the genocide that began during World War I. Dink once said that Armenians “all have an intuition about something broken in the past. It’s in our genetic … Read entire article »

By Narine Daneghyan Senior Reporter Youth Journalism International YEREVAN, Armenia – A little more than five years ago, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul. I will never forget the day he died. My family was gathered in the living room, watching television, when a breaking news report began. Dink, who had the courage to raise the taboo subject of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, had been gunned down. Well known in both Armenia and Turkey, Dink was an outspoken advocate for peace between the two bitterly estranged nations. Hrant Dink But rabid Turkish nationalists hated him because he spoke openly about the killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the genocide that began during World War I. Dink once said that Armenians “all have an intuition about something broken in the past. It’s in our genetic … Read entire article »

By Narine Daneghyan Senior Reporter Youth Journalism International YEREVAN, Armenia – A little more than five years ago, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul. I will never forget the day he died. My family was gathered in the living room, watching television, when a breaking news report began. Dink, who had the courage to raise the taboo subject of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, had been gunned down. Well known in both Armenia and Turkey, Dink was an outspoken advocate for peace between the two bitterly estranged nations. Hrant Dink But rabid Turkish nationalists hated him because he spoke openly about the killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the genocide that began during World War I. Dink once said that Armenians “all have an intuition about something broken in the past. It’s in our genetic … Read entire article »

By Narine Daneghyan Senior Reporter Youth Journalism International YEREVAN, Armenia – A little more than five years ago, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul. I will never forget the day he died. My family was gathered in the living room, watching television, when a breaking news report began. Dink, who had the courage to raise the taboo subject of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, had been gunned down. Well known in both Armenia and Turkey, Dink was an outspoken advocate for peace between the two bitterly estranged nations. Hrant Dink But rabid Turkish nationalists hated him because he spoke openly about the killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the genocide that began during World War I. Dink once said that Armenians “all have an intuition about something broken in the past. It’s in our genetic … Read entire article »