Hrant Dink on the threat to his life in Turkey

The paper publishes the last article by murdered journalist Hrant Dink, which appeared in the Turkish-Armenian weekly 'Agos'. Dink describes how both the law and media made him out to be an "enemy of Turkey" - and he describes his fear. "There were moments in which I seriously thought of leaving the country... but if we decided to go, where to? To Armenia? How would someone like me, who can't tolerate injustice, come to terms with the injustice there? Would I not have brought more misfortune to myself in that way? It's also not like me to move to a European country. After three days in the West, I would have wanted to return home on the fourth day: What am I doing there? We are among those people who want to turn the hell in which they live into heaven."

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