{"id":127388,"date":"2011-09-16T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T05:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=127388"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T05:47:23","slug":"it-is-with-shame-that-i-accept-this-award-hrant-dink-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/16\/it-is-with-shame-that-i-accept-this-award-hrant-dink-award-winners-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is With Shame that I Accept this Award&#8230;&#8217;: Hrant Dink Award Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hrant Dink Foundation bestowed the Hrant Dink Award for the third time Thursday evening in Istanbul. The award \u2014 handed out every year on Dink&#8217;s birthday, Sept. 15 \u2014 is traditionally shared between two people: one, a citizen of Turkey; the other, a foreign national.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As noted on the official <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrantdinkodulu.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hrant Dink Award website<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the award is given 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<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year, independent Istanbul-based newspaper Taraf editor-in-chief and lead columnist Ahmet Altan (pictured below) was the Turkish recipient of the award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ahmet-Altan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127366 aligncenter\" title=\"Ahmet-Altan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ahmet-Altan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ahmet-Altan.jpg 350w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ahmet-Altan-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not with joy but with shame that I accept this award. Along with Turkey&#8217;s 70 million people, I was unable to prevent Hrant&#8217;s murder. With 70 million people, I was unable to discover the real perpetrator. Accepting this award with shame, I am going to keep it as a deposit \u2014 to return it one day to the person who uncovers Hrant&#8217;s iniquity,&#8221; said Altan in his address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other recipient of the award was Mexican journalist, feminist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (pictured below). She was given the award by jury member, Yerevan Press Club President Boris Navasardian and\u00a0Erkan Ers\u00f6z of Turkey\u2019s Conscientious Objection Movement, one of the recipients of last year&#8217;s award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lydia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127367 aligncenter\" title=\"lydia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lydia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lydia.jpg 350w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lydia-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other recipient of last year&#8217;s award was Spanish judge Baltasar Garz\u00f3n Real, while in 2009, the award winners were Turkish journalist Alper G\u00f6rm\u00fc\u015f and Israeli journalist, publicist Amira Hass.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not with joy but with shame that I accept this award. 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