LISTEN TO HRANT DINK'S RADIO INTERVIEW - YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 2006

Dear Readers,

With all that has been said and written regarding Hrant Dink, his mission in life and the legacy he leaves in death, we would like to recommend a bit of introspection and a more comprehensive understanding of what Hrant actually stood for!!!!

It seems that today everyone wants a piece of this man . Turks, Kurds, Armenians, liberals, leftists , democrats, nationalists - they all want to claim Hrant Dink as their own.

Fortunately, we have the ability to understand what issues and ideologies made Hrant Dink the man he was through his own writings and statements and not the commentaries and interpretations of others.

We are lucky to have been sent news of a radio interview that Hrant Dink gave in Armenia in September of 2006 when he was in Yerevan to attend the last Armenia - Diaspora Conference.

We urge all to devote just 30 minutes to hear what Mr. Dink actually thought on a variety of issues relating to Turkish-Armenian relations, the role of the dispersion, Genocide recognition and the struggle for democracy and human rights in Turkey.

The interview shows the breath of the man's thinking and the universality of his concerns.