RAKEL DINK

Full text of the speech that Rakel Dink gave on the 10th anniversary of the murder of Hrant Dink.

Reacting to Can Dündar and Erdem Gül's standing trial with the request of aggravated life imprisonment because of their journalism activities, intellectuals, academics, writers and artists notified themselves saying that “We are accomplices to their crime” in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara.

Rakel Dink, in the article titled ‘A Century of Genocide’ she wrote for the April 24, 2015, issue of Cumhuriyet newspaper, relates what befell her family and relatives in 1915, how she met Hrant Dink, and the struggles they put up together: Today, first at Balıklı, at my Çutak’s grave, then in Şişli, at Sevag’s grave, and finally, in Taksim Square, to commemorate the ones we lost during the 1915 Genocide, I will silently wait for this country to become free.