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HAMAINK
The Newsletter for the U.K. Armenian Community
Published by the ACCC
In Service to the Community
HAMAINK
Winter 2009
issue No.17
was posted FREE OF CHARGE to every address registered with the ACCC
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"DNORHNEK"
Home Blessing for
Every Armenian Family It is customary to have our homes blessed by a priest, especially during the
first 40 days after Sourp Dzenount. It is a beautiful ceremony through which we bring the presence of our Lord into the heart of our own home for protection, happiness and prosperity.
To
request a 'Dnorhnek' please contact the ACCC's Church Wardens at St Yeghiche Church or the ACCC's Community Parish Priest, Fr. Shnork Baghdassarian :
Telephone Vicarage: 020 7937 0152 or
Mobile 07703 008 499 or E-mail: shnork@ukonline.co.uk
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Victim of Turkish Racism and
Intolerance of Free Speech HRANT DINK
TURKISH ARMENIAN WRITER SHOT DEAD IN TURKEY
ARMENIAN COMMUNITY & CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN HRANT DINK
On behalf of the British Armenian Community of the United Kingdom we would like to extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to Hrant Dink's wife and family for their tragic loss.
Hrant Dink will also be missed by his extended family of the Armenian Community worldwide of which he was a prominent and respected member.
As a Turkish Citizen, whose family have had roots in Turkey for many generations, Hrant Dink belonged to that group of Turkish
intellectuals, together with people such as Orhan Pamuk and Ragip Zarakolu, who strived for the emancipation of the Turkish
people, the introduction of freedom of expression in Turkey and the development of Turkey into a State which would qualify for entry into the European Union.
As a Turkish Citizen Hrant Dink's vision of an enlightened Turkey included the ability of Turkish people to look at their history and
recognise the mistakes and crimes committed in the past. Instead of blind denial of historical truths, to allow for free discussion
in the Turkish Press and the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.
If Hrant Dink was assassinated because of his progressive ideas for the good of Turkey, then his passing is certainly a loss for
Turkey. Until free-thinking people like Hrant Dink, Pamuk and Zarakolu are allowed to express their opinions without legal restraints in Turkey, then Turkey cannot claim to be part of the Free World.
If Hrant Dink was assassinated because he was an Armenian and for his active efforts for Turkey to allow free discussion of the Armenian Genocide, then he has become a victim of Turkish Racism and Extreme Nationalism.
Hrant Dink's life will have become simply one more Armenian life to be added to the 1.5 Million murdered Armenian lives for which
Turkey is responsible and for which it must give proper account. Turkey must address the undeniable historical facts, recognizing the crimes of its predecessors and must condemn them as Genocide.
Until that day arrives, every Armenian in this World is another "Hrant Dink" demanding justice for the crimes committed upon their people in Turkey.
If the outpouring of grief and anger of the demonstrators in Istanbul immediately following the assassination of Dink, and at his
funeral, are indicative of a potential change of mental attitudes, then there may be hope for Turkey yet.
ACCC
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