Hrant Dink

Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand

Journalists and authors, Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier remember the Turkish-Armenian journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink, who was assassinated near his office at Agos newspaper in January 2007. Marchand and Perrier reflect on the implications of his murder and suggest that Dink’s assassination by a young Turkish nationalist is, in fact, a form of continuation of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the consequence of a century of denialist policy perpetuated by the Turkish government.

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Originally published January 2016.

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Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand
Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand

Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand

Guillaume Perrier is a French journalist and writer. He was a correspondent for Le Monde in Turkey from 2005 to 2014 and covered all major events in the region. Laure Marchand is a French journalist and writer. She was Le Figaro's correspondent in Istanbul from 2006 to 2014. Together they co-authored La Turquie et le Fantôme Arménien (Turkey and the Armenian Ghost) (Actes Sud), an award-winning book translated into Turkish (Iletisim, 2014) and English (McGill-Queen’s University Press) on the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in April 2015.

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