ARMENIAN INSTITUTE FILM SCREEENING MURDER FILE HRANT DINK

ARMENIAN INSTITUTE

FILM SCREEENING

MURDER FILE HRANT DINK

Directed by Osman Okkan and Simone Sitte

Tuesday, 15 June 2010, at 7:30 pm

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG

(Tube: Russell Square)

Donations welcome

In January 2007, the Armenian –Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was murdered in Istanbul. Editor of the Armenian and Turkish language newspaper AGOS, Dink was an advocate of minority rights and dedicated to ensuring the continuation of Turkey’s multi-cultural society. Through this work, he made both friends and enemies and became a symbolic and eventually a literal target for nationalist hatred. Osman Okkan and Simone Sitte's haunting documentary (Germany ©2009, 80 min) gives background on Hrant Dink, the murder and the ongoing trial.

Please note: this film was to have been shown on January 19, 2010 but due to technical difficulties, we were unable to continue with the screening that evening.

This film will be preceded by an animation short by Maral Kerovpyan. "Öteki or The Other" is included in the Films About Conscience website of the Hrant Dink Foundation (vicdanfilmleri.org). Please visit the site for a variety of other wonderful shorts on the theme of conscience and human rights.

MY DEAR BROTHER: ARMENIAN LIFE IN TURKEY 100 YEARS AGO

Project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

The Armenian Institute is grateful to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting this and other forthcoming events under the project: My Dear Brother: Armenian Life in Turkey 100 Years Ago.

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