Turkish-Armenian journalist, columnist and editor of the Istanbul-based bilingual Agos weekly Hrant Dink would’ve turned 57 today.<\/p>\n
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On Sept. 15, 2009, when the distinguished journalist’s 55th birthday was being celebrated post-humously in Istanbul, the Hrant Dink Foundation launched the Hrant Dink Award, which is presented annually on Dink\u2019s birthday to \u201cpeople who work for a world free of discrimination, racism, and violence, take personal risks for their ideals, use the language of peace and by doing so, inspire and encourage others,\u201d according to the official Hrant Dink Award website<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Each year, the award is given to one citizen of Turkey and one foreign national. In 2009, the award winners were Turkish journalist Alper G\u00f6rm\u00fc\u015f and Israeli journalist, publicist Amira Hass, while in 2010, the award was given to Turkey\u2019s Conscientious Objection Movement and Spanish judge Baltasar Garz\u00f3n Real.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This year’s award will be announced at a ceremony in Istanbul set to start at 8 pm local time (10 pm Yerevan time).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hrant Dink was shot in front of the Agos office on Jan. 19, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkish-Armenian journalist, columnist and editor of the Istanbul-based bilingual Agos weekly Hrant Dink would’ve turned 57 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10425,25626,15588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}