The murder in Turkey of the journalist Hrant Dink

Jürgen Gottschlich calls the murder of Hrant Dink a "catastrophe... for Turkey's democratic, EU-oriented civil society in general, but especially for the future of the Armenian minority... After the attack, neither Armenians in Turkey nor activists for democracy will have the courage to confront the Turkish people - who are ideologically blinded in so many ways, and historically uninformed - with uncomfortable truths. Unfortunately, it seems the killers will - at least temporarily - have achieved their goal of stifling internal Turkish debate on the genocide, a debate that had entered broader circles despite legal pressures against it."

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