In the fourth year of the International Hrant Dink Award, the award in Turkey was granted to İsmail Beşikçi, who has been struggling for dialogue and peaceful resolution of various social problems and conflicts, including the Kurdish issue.
Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center, received the 2012 International Hrant Dink Award on behalf of the International “Memorial” Society. Since the 1990s , “Memorial” has been working on confronting the past.