Editor
Erdem İlgi Akter
Language
Turkish, English
1st edition - January 2026
277 Pages
The 23.5 book, published by the 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory, founded in 2019 at the site where Hrant Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007, is now available in Turkish and English. Shaped around the themes of Memory, Truth, Confrontation, Action, and Hope, the book brings together 16 writers from Turkey and around the world in dialogue with Hrant Dink's own writing.
Drawing on experiences from South Africa to the Americas and Europe, the 23.5 book shares how the struggles for truth, confrontation, and justice have taken shape across different social contexts. It shows how these experiences are part of the same history and how they are interwoven, and while examining different forms of remembering the past, it offers hopeful paths toward building the future together.
- Title
- 23.5
- ISBN (Turkish)
- 978-625-97168-5-5
- ISBN (English)
- 978-625-97168-6-2
- Price
- 5000 TL
- Pages
- 277
- Width
- 23 cm
- Height
- 28 cm
- Weight
- 1424 gr
- Edition
- 1st edition - January 2026
- Language
- Turkish, English
- Editor
- Erdem İlgi Akter
- Editorial Management
- Ayfer Bartu Candan, Delal Dink, Nayat Karaköse
- Design
- Sera Dink
- Coordination
- Talin Altun, Aslı Yolcu Sağlam
- Translation into English
- Simon Popay
- English Proofreading
- Kate Ferguson, Neil P. Doherty
- Turkish Translation
- Defne Orhun, Begüm Kovulmaz
- Turkish Proofreading
- Rober Koptaş
- Photographs
- Hadiye Cangökçe
- Printing and Binding
- Ofset Yapımevi
- Publisher
- Hrant Dink Foundation Publications
This book has been published with the support of Sida, the Olof Palme International Center, and the John and Hasmik Mgrdichian Foundation. The Hrant Dink Foundation bears sole responsibility for the content of the book; the views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the official positions of Sida, the Olof Palme International Center, or the John and Hasmik Mgrdichian Foundation.
- The 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory and This Book
- Hrant Dink Foundation
- The 90th Anniversary Articles (1), This Is How I Feel
- Hrant Dink
- 1. MEMORY
- Thread Memory
Deborah Valoma - Documents, Archives, Memory, and History
Edhem Eldem - Counter-Archive: From Hrant Dink to the 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory
Arus Yumul
- Thread Memory
- 2. TRUTH
- New Expressions of Armenian Identity; or, When the Water Finds Its Crack…
Hrant Dink - Revisiting Haunting Legacies
Gabriele Schwab - When Ferman's Hopes Ran Dry
Hrant Dink - Forty Days and More: Connective Histories
Marianne Hirsch - Beyond the Law: Reflections on Systemic Discrimination in Apartheid South Africa
Bonita Bennett - Hear My Plea, Brothers, Sisters!
Hrant Dink - Whose Memory and Whose History: What's Nationalism Got to Do with It?
Arlene Voski Avakian - Let's Turn Our Differences into Jokes and Banter
Hrant Dink - From the Neighborhood to the Nation: Justice in Memory
Ferhat Kentel - Colorful Questions from the "Color Blind"
Hrant Dink - Toilet Choir
Hrant Dink - Why Was I Targeted?
Hrant Dink
- New Expressions of Armenian Identity; or, When the Water Finds Its Crack…
- 3. CONFRONTATION
- Sharing Some Experiences of South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Albie Sachs - Remembering the Future… With Humility
Ayşe Kadıoğlu - Democracy and Liberty in Times of Violence
Étienne Balibar - Sungur, My Brother...
Hrant Dink - Shall We Have A Heart-to-Heart?
Hrant Dink
- Sharing Some Experiences of South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission
- 4. ACTION
- My Dearest Hrant, My Dearest Brother
Takuhi Tovmasyan - Excerpts from Hrant Dink Commemorations...
- How Can Hope and Memory Be Reconciled?
Aylin Vartanyan Dilaver
- My Dearest Hrant, My Dearest Brother
- 5. HOPE
- Defying Convention
Ayşe Gül Altınay - Always for Building, Always for Hope
Rakel Dink - April 23.5
Hrant Dink
- Defying Convention
