Author

Tûba Çandar

Translator

Maureen Freely

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

Published December 29, 2015
404 Pages

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007.

As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky undertaking, in a country where Armenians live as closed communities; it was also unprecedented in Turkey. Dink was prosecuted three times for "insulting and denigrating Turkishness" and ultimately convicted.

The biography is written as an oral history, and assembles a mosaic of memories as told by Dink's family, friends, and comrades. Dink's own "voice," in the form of his writings, is also included. Originally published in Turkey, it is now available for an English-speaking audience on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Born in 1948, Tuba Çandar attended the Austrian High School in Istanbul. She received an AFS Intercultural Programs scholarship and completed her studies in the USA. Çandar received her Bachelor's degree in political science and international relations at the Ankara University in 1979. Çandar went to exile in Germany after the military coup of March 1971, and following the amnesty, she returned to Turkey where she became the editor-in-chief of "Bizim Almanca" magazine under the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet. She worked as an editor at Gergedan magazine and freelanced for various dailies including Yeni Yüzyıl, penning pieces on culture, arts and travel, and Gazete Pazar, where she started her "Portraits" column. Her first book about the life of one of Turkey's first female architects Mualla Eyüboğlu Anhegger, "Hitit Güneşi" (Hitite Sun) was published in 2003. She released "Murat Belge Bir Hayat" (Murat Belge. A Life) on the outspoken leftist Turkish intellectual and literary critic Murat Belge in 2007. Her latest book "Hrant" came out on the birthday of Hrant Dink on Sept. 15 in 2010.

Book name
Hrant Dink - An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey
Original Name
Hrant (2010)
Translator
Maureen Freely
Publisher
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN
9780203789650
Pages
404
Width
140 mm
Height
230 mm
Weight
178 gr
Printing
December 29, 2015
Language
English
Author
Tûba Çandar
Cover Photo
Sebati Karakurt
  • Preface to the Transaction Edition
    Tuba candar
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to the Transaction Edition x
    Gerard J. Libaridian
  • Guide to Turkish Pronunciation
  • Rakel's Letter
  • My Hrant
  • Lying on the Pavement
  • Raising Hrant from The Pavement

Book One: Khent Hrant

Part I: An Abandoned Child

  • 1 The Hamam of the Infidels
  • 2 The Fisherman's Basket
  • 3 The Orphanage
  • 4 The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: The Armenian Children's Camp

Part II: Madcap

  • 5 Heartbreaker
  • 6 First Rebellion
  • 7 A New Name and a New Life

Part III: Eternal Love

  • 8 Rakel, the Girl from the Mountains
  • 9 Love at First Sight
  • 10 Happily Ever After

Part IV: The Struggle to Make a Living

  • 11 The First Family Business
  • 12 A Student Like No Other

Part V: The Dissident

  • 13 The Swallow's Nest
  • 14 The Ballad of the Prisons
  • 15 The Company of Suspect Soldiers

Part VI: The Businessman

  • 16 Beyaz Adam (The White Man)
  • 17 The Gambler

Part VII: Family Man

  • 18 Three Apples Fall from the Sky
  • 19 The Dink Brothers

Part VIII: A Sad Farewell

  • 20 The Lost Letter

Book Two: Baron Hrant

Part I: Looking

  • 21 Hrant's Agos
  • 22 From the Agos Perspective
  • 23 A World Called Agos

Part II: Touching

  • 24 An Armenian in Turkey
  • 25 A Turkish Armenian in the Armenian World

Part III: Seeing

  • 26 The Road to Recovery

Part IV: Knowing

  • 27 The Beginning of the End
  • 28 The Hunt
  • 29 Fluttering Like a Pigeon

Part V: Dying

  • 30 A Time for Psalms
  • 31 Last Embrace
  • Epilogue
  • Hrant Dink: A Chronology
  • The Voices in the Book
  • Glossary