Arat Dink

{{Short description|Turkish Armenian journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Arat Dink | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1979 | birth_place = Istanbul, Turkey | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Journalist | language = | nationality = Turkish, Armenian | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notable_works = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = Hrant Dink(father) | awards = The Guardian Journalism Award by Index on Censorship(2008) | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | signature_type = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Arat Dink''' (Արատ Դինք born 1979) is a Turkish Armenian journalist and the executive editor of ''Agos'', a bilingual Turkish Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul. He is the son of Rakel Dink and Hrant Dink, the former editor-in-chief of the same paper, who was murdered by Ogün Samast, a Turkish ultra-nationalist who was seventeen years old at the time.

== Trial on Hrant Dink's assassination ==

Arat Dink was brought to trial as a co-defendant as the executive editor of Agos along with Serkis Seropyan, holder of the weekly's publishing license in the third and last case that was opened against Hrant Dink on charges of 'denigrating Turkishness' under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.<ref name="AmnestyUKSept06">{{cite press release|url=http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17117 |title=Turkey: Prosecution of journalist is harassment |accessdate=24 January 2007 |publisher=Amnesty International, UK |date=27 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930223824/http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17117 |archivedate=30 September 2007 }}</ref><ref name="agos061507">{{cite news |title=Two acquittals, one postponement |publisher=Agos |date=15 June 2007 |url=http://www.agos.com.tr/eng/index.php?module=news&news_id=369&cat_id=1 |accessdate=26 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124640/http://www.agos.com.tr/eng/index.php?module=news&news_id=369&cat_id=1 |archivedate=29 September 2007 }}</ref> The charge was pressed in September 2006 after Agos republished a 14 July 2006 interview of Hrant Dink by the Reuters news agency where Hrant Dink referred to the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.<ref name="PEN070119">{{cite press release |url=http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1135/prmID/172 |title=PEN Alarmed by Murder of Armenian-Turkish Journalist |accessdate=24 January 2007 |date=19 January 2007 |publisher=PEN American Center |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204124006/http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1135/prmID/172 |archivedate=4 February 2007 }}</ref>

The charges against Hrant Dink were dropped in the first hearing of the case, originally scheduled for 22 March 2007 and rescheduled to 14 June 2007 due to his death and continued for Serkis Seropyan and Arat Dink, with the second hearing scheduled for 18 July 2007.<ref name="agos061507"/> At the court hearing, Arat Dink accused judges of contributing to his father's death by making him a target thanks to their high-profile judicial proceedings. "I think it is primitive, absurd and dangerous to consider as an insult to Turkish identity the recognition of a historic event as a genocide," he said, quoted by the Anatolia news agency.<ref name="armenialiberty">{{cite news | url=http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2007/06/CF157A3B-45B6-40ED-A314-A77216E23308.ASP | title=Kocharian honors slain Turkish-Armenian editor | accessdate=26 June 2007 | date=18 June 2007 | last=Danielian | first=Gayane }}</ref>

== Trial of Arat Dink for insulting Turkey's identity ==

On 11 October 2007 Arat Dink was convicted of insulting Turkey's identity for republishing his father's remarks. He was given a one-year suspended sentence for "insulting Turkishness", like his father before him.<ref name="iht">{{cite news | title = Son of slain ethnic Armenian journalist is convicted in Turkey of 'insulting Turkishness' | publisher = International Herald Tribune | date=11 October 2007 | url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/11/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Free-Speech.php | accessdate=11 October 2007}}</ref>

== Awards == He was awarded the Guardian Journalism Award by Index on Censorship on 21 April 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/23/turkey.humanrights |accessdate=1 July 2008 |title=In praise of ... Arat Dink |work=The Guardian |date=23 April 2008 }}</ref>

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