Newmag Publishing House and "Hrant Dink Foundation" start a new partnership (trailer)

The "Hrant Dink Foundation" was created after the great tragedy of 2007 to prevent such incidents and fulfill Hrant Dink's dreams of a fairer and freer world. The fundamental principle of the foundation is the universal protection of democracy and human rights, regardless of ethnic, religious, cultural and gender differences. The foundation works for the sake of such a world and such a Turkey, where not the land, but the person is the value, where the conscience is the primary consideration of the past and the present.

The first joint work is the book "Hrant" by Tuba Chandar. Armenuhi Nikoghosyan, the program coordinator said. "We are very happy about the cooperation between Newmag and our institution and we hope that thanks to Newmag, the books of the “Hrant Dink Foundation” will be more available in Armenia and the Diaspora."

Turkish journalist Tuba Chandar presented one life in one book, from a triple conviction for "insulting and humiliating Turkishness" to brutal murder. This is the first major biography of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, from birth to death. With the stories of eyewitnesses, memories of friends, and personal research, this is an exclusive memoir about the life and activities of the "Akos" editor, Hrant Dink.

Artak Aleksanyan, the CEO of Newmag, emphasizes that the partnership begins with this book. "We are delighted that the "Hrant Dink Foundation" has chosen us as its main partner in Armenia. I hope that the Armenian language literature that is created thanks to the institution will be of interest to our readers, Turkologists and historians studying Armenian-Turkish relations."

The book is written like an oral history. It is a mosaic made up of memories of friends, family members, and colleagues. Dink's articles were also included in the book. The writer had to live in exile in Germany after the military coup in Turkey in 1971 and returned to Turkey only in 1980 after a political amnesty.

In 1996, Dink founded the bilingual (Armenian and Turkish) newspaper "Akos" in Istanbul to present the extreme isolation of Turkish-Armenians, becoming its mouthpiece and defender of rights, and being a mediator between the Armenian and Turkish peoples.

Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007, in front of the "Akos" editorial office in Shishli, by three gunshots to the head from behind. Dink's murder caused a great wave of protests in Turkey and abroad. With the slogan "I am Armenian, I am Hrant Dink", thousands of people took to the streets in support of Dink.

In 2005, Hrant Dink was awarded the annual Freedom of Speech and Conscience Award of the Human Rights Protection Organization of Turkey, in 2006 he was awarded the Henry Nannen Prize for Press Freedom and Journalistic Courage and Norway's Björns Prize for Human Rights Protection, in 2007 he was awarded also the Prize of the President of Armenia, posthumously.

A street was named after Dink in Marseille, France, and a school in Paris. In 2018, the Istanbul Municipality renamed Samanyolu Street in the Meshrutiyet district of Shishli after Hrant Dink.

The memoir "Hrant" will be available on the newmag.am website and in all bookstores.