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Fethiye Cetin Speaks at 8th Hrant Dink Commemoration in Toronto
On Jan. 18, the Toronto-Armenian community gathered to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the assassination of editor and journalist Hrant Dink, who was murdered in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007, in front of the “Agos” newspaper offices.
More than 700 people filled the Armenian Community Center to hear keynote speaker Fethiye Cetin, one of the most prominent lawyers in Turkey. Cetin was Hrant Dink’s lawyer while he was alive, and continued to serve as his family’s lawyer after his assassi
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A journey of a thousand mile begins with a pace. Perpetrators are making Armenians still sweat on that initial pace, like “Justice For Hrant”; it’s a game of hard to get, keeping busy and exhaustive. Further, I see an issue with directing ALL efforts to attain equality of citizenry for minorities in Turkey ( sarcastically speaking, who’s left and what’s left of them?); I equally have an issue with the slogan “Never Again”… as if the whole effort is just to prevent repetition of genocides in the future: In hindsight, were our forefathers simply “guinea pigs”, and their suffering just a testament for brighter future for mankind? Isn’t that a polite way of saying “let bygones be bygones, let’s learn from those human experiments, thus strive to prevent future genocides”…..???
we Armenians take it for granted that we speak Armenian , but like my hero Fatheiye Cetin and many others like her who don’t belong to the Armenian church and speak other odar languages are blessed for having the noble blood of out centuries old martyrs whose agonizing death did not go in vain.
Dear Fethiye Cetin, my heartfelt congratulations for your courageous speech in Toronto and in the court.
Bravo. God bless you and your Dear family.
Please note that the Armenian name for Ms. Cetin’s grandmother’s village is “Havav.” Habap is the name Kurds use. Prior to the genocide, Havav was a purely Armenian village.