Delal Dink to deliver memorial lecture at Harvard University
UPDATE: Friends of Hrant, Inc., Boston, regretfully announces that the Annual Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture has been postponed due to inclement weather and flight cancellations. A new date will be announced as soon as new arrangements are made.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and the Friends of Hrant Dink, Inc. Boston, are proud to announce the speaker of the 2026 Annual Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture, Delal Dink. The lecture will take place on January 27.
The daughter of the late Turkish-Armenian intellectual, journalist and humanist, Hrant Dink, who was assassinated on January 19, 2007, Delal Dink will be the speaker of this important annual event. In the past, lecturers of this event have featured internationally recognized human rights scholars and advocates, who have been inspired by Hrant Dink’s values and his contributions to the mutual understanding of communities and nations in conflict.
Delal Dink, a graduate of Purdue University, has been the imaginative spirit behind the Hrant Dink Foundation in Istanbul and its Director since its founding following Hrant Dink’s death.
In her lecture, titled “The Future as Memorial: Commemorating Hrant Dink,” Delal Dink will reflect on the work of the Hrant Dink Foundation and its efforts to rethink commemoration not as a static act of remembrance, but as an ongoing invitation to an alternative future. “The Foundation approaches its work as ‘remembrance in action’ — a living practice refusing to merely mourn loss, but actively build the world Hrant Dink envisioned,” reflected Delal Dink.
“This annual event has been a significant part of our activities,“ stated Harry Parsekian, founder and President of Friends of Hrant Dink, “and we are grateful to Delal Dink for accepting our invitation to be the speaker on this, the 19th anniversary of Hrant’s assassination.”
The 2026 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday, January 27, at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, in the Tsai Auditorium Harvard University, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and is open to the public.
Our Knight Hrant Dink(1954-2007)
To our Knight
Who had no sword
Only fingers on pens
Carved on many
Historical Sites
Like Khachkars*
He was born a martyr.
Mais~Amazed
Still alive
With his astrocytes
Fore…Justice must prevail.
Sylva Portoian, MD, FRCP
In my poetry book ” Sylva’s 1000 Poems for 1000 Nights ” on Amazon
Just beautiful!!!! Thank you!!!
Our Knight Hrant Dink (1954-2007)
To our Knight
Who had no sword
Only fingers on pens
Carved on many
Historical Sites
Like Khachkars*
He was born a martyr.
Mais~Amazed
Still alive
With his astrocytes
Fore…Justice must prevail.
Sylva Portoian, MD, FRCP
In my poetry book ” Sylva’s 1000 Poems for 1000 Nights ” on Amazon
Please, Above is a poem and Iam including more poems thanks… … Dear Hrant Dink:
“A Gun Can’t Kill a Pen”
I say,
The gun cannot kill a true pen.
Gun will soon rust,
The writing implementation will remain and
Forever, creating new humans.
Your blood is blue ink—
Your Bones are white pens!
Contains Clever, Honest
Armenian DNAs—
Sweetness, sincerity, seriousness—
In every genuine cell stays,
Not to seek any revenge,
Moreover, asking truthfulness!
Your DNA will not go in vain.
Through unfaithful slayers are persisting
lawlessly to slay.
The sound of a scientific brain!
That created
The Armenian newspaper: Agos!
Dink’s last article reads,
“Turkish poisons let them mix with Armenian honest blood.
I am a dove spinning between Turks and Armenians.
Can Turks shun a dove, a sign of peaceful shine?”
As an innocent dove, you gave further proof after nearly a century.
that dreadful genocide was lawfully committed by unmerciful hands.
We ask forgiveness from your perfumed soul to send prayers for one God to stop the criminals From denting innocent lives.
Your funeral day astonished the world.
Humanitarian Turks soulfully confessed their ancestors’ sins
By crying tearfully, chanting from sincere hearts:
“We’re HRANT and we’re
All ARMENIANS” (2007)
Hrant ~ Hrant ~
The Humane ~
Brave ~ Hero ~
Hrant ~ Hrant ~ The Humane ~ Brave ~ Hero ~
He was full of love. They killed him.
He was full of peace. They killed him.
He was full of passion. They killed him …
He was extremely Honest…
They gunned him down He knew he would be killed…
Still, he continued his mission…
He loved Turks to unite with him
with his nation and finally live in peace.
They killed him mercilessly, godlessly…
In their unjust…inhumane, revengive ways …
No one wanted him to die… Even Honest Turks…
Thousands of honest Turkish nations chanted…
“We are all Hrant Dink” at his funeral in January 2007…
Hrant will remain, The Icon of Justice to tell Seljuk-Turks
How and why they genocided 1.5 million innocent Armenians…
And taking all their belongings and their ancient Highlands…
Destroying more than 2400 churches, converting the best ones
to their Tartaric-Seljuk Temples by adding only
a few “Kasukhs”- Naming them Seljuk-Minarets … Shouting from the top…
“Allah Akbar” marsh … Annihilate the ‘Gowers*’ the Armenians!
Written instantly after watching Happy Hrant Dink’s face …
Full of Optimism,
Love… Peace…
Joyfulness…
Written instantly after watching
Happy Hrant Dink’s face …
Full of Optimism,
Love… Peace…
Joyfulness…
January 16, 2020
You can’t include tougher, all are poems, not articles…
Please give me a chance to write aspoems
Your site made putting my poems in a mess…