One year since the assassination of Hrant Dink, the ethic Armenian Turk journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos.
A year after 19 Turkish celebrities made a tape collection of his articles.This tape together with photos, are part of an audio exhibition in Istanbul to remind people of his ideas and dreams.
Hrant Dink was accused based on art.301 of the penal code on insulting turkishness, like Orhan Pamouk and other prominent intellectuals of Turkey.
The photo with the red carnation reminded me of Nikos Belogiannis, a Greek communist,leader of the anti Nazi resistance who was sentenced to death in 1951 by a court martial as a traiter!
Ironic enough,one of "ultra patriotic" members of the court was George Papadopoulos, the future dictator( 1967-1974). Beloyannis was executed in 1952
Belogiannis is known as the Man with the Carnation, by a poem of Nazim Hikmet and a sketch by Pablo Picasso.
It was the last execution due to political reasons in Greece...
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