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Hrant Dink Hrant Dink

was a Turkish Armenian journalist and life-long human

rights activist. He started to publish the Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper Agos on April 5, 1996 to establish a bridge of communication and understanding between the larger Turkish population and the TurkishArmenian community. One of the major aims of the newspaper is to contribute to dialogue between the citizens of Turkey and also between Turkey and Armenia. Dink was best known for advocating

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HRANT DINK Turkish Armenian Human Rights Activist

Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey.

PANEL DISCUSSION

“Pigeons can live in cities, even in crowds. A little scared perhaps, but free.”

Rakel Dink

Hrant Dink, AGOS, Jan 19th, 2007

Honored Guest, Hrant Dink's Widow

Prof. Peter Balakian Author, The Burning Tigris

Andrew Tarsy Facing History and Ourselves

Dr. Oktay Ozel Friends of Hrant Dink “A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization” P.O. Box 382061 Cambridge, MA 02238-2061 www.friendsofhrantdink.org

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University ——————————————————————————————————————————————————Welcoming remarks Robert J. Lifton, M.D., Harvard Medical School

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Kresge Auditorium at MIT, Cambridge, MA February 1, 2009

Widow of the journalist and life-long human rights activist Hrant Dink. In a eulogy she called "Letter to my Beloved", Rakel Dink had addressed the huge crowd of mourners who had gathered to accompany Hrant Dink's coffin to his burial place on 23 January 2007. She awakened great admiration for her forgiving words, when she talked about the young triggerman: "Whoever the assassin may be, whether he was 17 or 27 years old, I know that he was once a baby. My brothers and sisters, one cannot accomplish anything without first questioning the darkness that creates an assassin from such a baby".

Prof. Peter Balakian

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Peter Balakian is the author of many books including

June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 (HarperCollins 2001) and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (HarperCollins, 2004), which won the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times Best Seller. His memoir, Black Dog of Fate won the 1998 PEN/ Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Prize, and was a best book of the year for the New York Times, the LA Times, and Publisher’s Weekly, and was recently issued in a 10th anniversary edition. He is also the author of a book on the American poet Theodore Roethke and the co translator of the Armenian poet Siamanto’s Bloody News From My Friend, and cotranslator of Girgoris Balakian’s Armenian Golgotha. Balakian holds a BA from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. He is Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Colgate University. He was the first Director of Colgate’s Center For Ethics and World Societies. ROBERT Jay LIFTON, M.D. Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard

Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology, The City University of New York, is an author, a scholar-activist, and the recipient of many national and international awards and honorary degrees. The overall themes of his work have been holocaust and transformation; more recent work involves atrocity-producing situations and medical complicity and torture in connection with the war in Iraq.

A n d r e w Ta r s y Andrew Tarsy joined the senior management team at the

international education non-profit organization Facing History and Ourselves in 2008. He is focused there on external affairs, public policy and strategic growth of the organization. Before that, he was with the Anti-Defamation League for 8 years, as northeast civil rights counsel and then as Executive Director of ADL New England. He separated from ADL in 2008 after a public clash over the organization's policy on recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Andy previously served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.

D r . O k tay O z e l Oktay Ozel is an Assistant Professor at the Department

of History, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He has instructed several courses on the subjects of Ottoman socio-economic history, demographic changes, methods and problems in historical writings He has recently been working on the late nineteenth century mass migrations, immigrants and the inter-communal relations in the central Black Sea region, including the Armenians. He has also published articles on the journals and newspapers, publicly criticizing the popular-political pressure on scholars in discussing the Armenian Genocide, while being one of the participants to the 2005-Symposium on "Ottoman Armenians" convened in Istanbul. He is a visiting scholar at Harvard University currently.

KHATCHIG MOURADIAN Khatchig Mouradian is a journalist, writer and

translator. He was an editor of the Lebanese-Armenian daily newspaper Aztag from 2000 to 2007, when he moved to Boston and became the editor of the Armenian Weekly. Mouradian has lectured extensively and participated in conferences in Armenia, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and the U.S. He has presented papers on genocide and the media at several academic conferences including the 5th and 6th Workshops on Armenian-Turkish Scholarship, held at NYU in 2006 and at the Graduate Institute in Geneva in 2008. Mouradian’s articles and poems have appeared in many publications worldwide. Many of his writings have been translated into more than ten languages. He contributes to a number of U.S. and European publications, including ZNet, Jewcy, The Jewish Advocate, and Radikal (Turkey).

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Rakel Dink