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...hard to launch and sustain. I cannot take my eyes off the soles of your shoes. Worn out and tired, your shoes are a mute response to all those ultranationalists who accused you of being in the pay of the Armenian diaspora to disrupt the status quo in Turkey...
Istanbul, Turkey Dear Hrant...
...said. "I can travel now!" And so you did, commuting between America , Europe , Turkey and Armenia , bridging gaps that people on all sides took for granted. Always a maverick, you never just gave your audience what they wanted to hear. The myriad prejudices and generalizations in the Armenian diaspora about Turkey and the Turks frustrated you. "Yes, there are bigoted Turks," you would say, "but there also countless progressive, open-minded ones, and they are my friends, brothers and sisters...
Muslims and Christians buried you together. On your gravestone there sits a marble angel, her eyes turned toward the sky, as if awaiting an explanation, or else, consolation. But that solace won't come from above. It will come from Turkey, from the land you loved...
...wants Turkey to abolish that law, Article 301, which is used by nationalist prosecutors and lawyers to charge writers and journalists with "insulting Turkishness." At Dink's funeral today, many in the procession carried posters that read "301 is the real killer." "His murder has started some soul-searching," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. "Turks need to look at themselves and ask how they could have bred the xenophobia and paranoia that would lead a kid to do this. Everyone has some degree of responsibility here...