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    Die Welt: 01/22/2006

    Killing of Hrant Dink

    Commentary: Culprit Turkey
    (Translation from German)

    By Boris Kalnoky

    The deadly bullets shot to Turkish-Armenian reporter Hrant Dink were shot
    "against Turkey", said prime minister Erdogan. This catchword was repeated
    everywhere in Turkish society, from the chief of general staff Buyukanit to
    all the way trough the media. It means that the killer or killers weren't in
    fact Turks, but traitors who wanted to harm the Country. The Turkey itself
    is the victim.

    In reality it is the other way around. It was the Turkish society who made
    Dink a victim; it was the Turkish society that shot the bullets. The media
    had reported about numerous lawsuits against Dink. Hence he was labeled a
    traitor. Because he was saying things nobody dares to talk about in Turkey.
    That the founder of the state Ataturk had adopted an Armenian orphan girl
    (Dink was himself an orphan), and that there has been genocide perpetrated
    against Armenians. Dink was one of a few remaining Armenians in Turkey and
    almost the only one who openly spoke loudly. This last remaining voice is
    now silenced.

    Also responsible are the laws from the arsenal of the police states. The
    "Insult to Turkishness", an offence sufficient for high-treason accusations,
    that nobody even understands what it means except Turkish state lawyers and
    military. The EU insisted to repeal the according penal paragraph 301, an
    instrument for slander on intellectuals. The government promised "revisions".
    That is not true any more - the murderous paragraph stays as it is, because
    the military wants so.

    In the internet forums the man was already long dead before he died. At the
    office of the Istanbul vice governor Dundur he was threatened. Police didn't
    protect him, although he was in danger. Maybe he didn't ask for personal
    security, but it had to be clear to everybody, that it would be catastrophic
    for Turkey and its reputation abroad, should anything happen to him. Whoever
    in Turkey's security service didn't see this is incompetent.

    Now everyone who drove him into the corner before wants to be called "Hrant
    Dink": politicians, bureaucrats, opinion makers. None of them will ever go
    through what it means to be hunted by Turkish society. Therefore nothing
    will change.

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    Die Welt: 01/22/2006



    Ermordung von Hrant Dink

    Kommentar: Tater Turkei

    Von Boris Kalnoky

    Die todlichen Kugeln auf den turkisch-armenischen Publizisten Hrant Dink
    wurden "gegen die Turkei" abgefeuert, sagte Ministerprasident Erdogan. Von
    Generalstabschef Buyukanit bis zu den Medien wurde dieses Schlagwort in der
    gesamten turkischen Gesellschaft wiederholt. Es besagt, dass der oder die
    Morder eigentlich keine Turken sind, sondern Verrater, die dem Lande schaden
    wollen. Die Turkei selbst ist das Opfer.
    In Wirklichkeit ist es umgekehrt. Es war die turkische Gesellschaft, die
    Dink zum Opfer machte, sie war es, die die Kugeln abfeuerte. Uber die
    zahlreichen Prozesse gegen Dink hatten die Medien berichteten. So wurde er
    zum Verrater abgestempelt. Weil er Dinge sagte, die man in der Turkei nicht
    sagen darf: Dass Staatsgrunder Ataturk ein armenisches Waisenmadchen
    adoptierte (Dink war selbst Waise) und dass es einen Volkermord an den
    Armeniern gab. Dink war einer der wenigen verbliebenen Armenier in der
    Turkei und fast der einzige, der offentlich die Stimme erhob. Diese letzte
    Stimme ist nun erloschen.

    Mit verantwortlich sind Gesetze aus dem Arsenal von Polizeistaaten.
    "Beleidigung des Turkentums", ein Hochverrats-Tatbestand, von dem niemand
    außer turkischen Staatsanwalten und Militars weiß, was er uberhaupt bedeuten
    soll. Der entsprechende Strafparagraf 301, Instrument des Rufmords an
    Intellektuellen, sollte auf Drangen der EU abgeschafft werden, die Regierung
    versprach "Änderungen". Das gilt nicht mehr - der morderische Paragraf
    bleibt bestehen, weil das Militar es so will.
    In Internetforen war der Mann bereits tot, bevor er starb. Beim Istanbuler
    Vizegouverneur Dundur wurde ihm gedroht. Die Polizei schutzte ihn nicht,
    obwohl ihm Gefahr drohte. Er wollte wohl selbst keinen Personenschutz, aber
    allen muss klar gewesen sein, dass es eine Katastrophe fur die Turkei und
    ihr Ansehen im Ausland sein wurde, wenn ihm etwas zustieße. Wer das bei den
    turkischen Sicherheitsbehorden nicht erkannt hat, hat versagt.
    Nun wollen alle "Hrant Dink" heißen, die ihn zuvor in die Enge trieben:
    Politiker, Burokraten und Meinungsmacher. Keiner von ihnen wird jemals
    selbst erleben, was es bedeutet, von der turkischen Gesellschaft gejagt zu
    werden. Daher wird sich nichts andern.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”
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