PEN-club posthumously honored with Hermann Kesten Medal

PanARMENIAN.Net - By initiative of PEN-club, Agos editor Hrant Dink was posthumously honored with Hermann Kesten Medal.



During a solemn ceremony, Dink's widow, Rakel Dink said, "My husband was struggling against the forces that were stronger than him. He wanted to inspire people with love and peace but people called him traitor and charged him under article 301. This goes on till today. His newspaper is accused of "insulting Turkishness."



Hrant Dink was shot dead outside his newspaper office in Istanbul January 19, 2007 by ultranationalist teenager Ogun Samast. Before, Hrant Dink had stood under article 301.
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