Interesting thoughts about Dink’s life and tragic assassination 4 years ago today. His death was significant, but his life more so. This is an occasion to pray that God illuminate his soul, but also that the shadow that has covered the Turkish and Armenian peoples for the past 96 years be lifted by God’s providence and our positive efforts.

Many people today protest, write, talk and even cry for Hrant. These actions are in fact despite themselves. Come tomorrow, many of those will go back to their original set of values where thoughts could be perceived as a threat to their state which they think is a separate entity that protects them from the harms of an imaginary outer sphere.

Contrary to their beliefs, Hrant was just not a martyr. He was a martyr because he fought so that he could be the last martyr. Yes he was about freedom, but he was about fraternity as well. He was above the ever-going social contract, and so the state couldn’t afford to live with his ideas continuing to question and criticize their ideological existence.

— Stratos Moraitis writing for journalistinturkey.com

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