The former Agos office where Hrant Dink’s office is located will be turned into a site of memory and conscience. With a special focus on Hrant Dink, the site will be a place where Armenians’ culture and history, minority rights in Turkey, the story of Agos Newspaper will be presented from various angles. Contributing to social dialogue, mutual understanding and promoting dealing with the past are among the aspirations of the site of memory. The site of memory will also function as a site of dialogue and a site of learning with the implementation of innovative and creative education and audience programs.
In 2013, in the fourth year of the project, 21 films were selected by Ahmet Boyacıoğlu, Cem Mansur, Petros Markaris, Rakel Dink, Susanna Harutyunyan, Thomas Balkenhol and Yeşim Ustaoğlu.
The Turkey-Armenia border, sealed in 1993, completely disregards the interests and welfare of people on both sides, and negatively impacts social development, economy and environment of border cities and the region as such.
ournalists and reporters from A1 TV, Ankakh Weekly, Arm News TV, AZG Daily, H1 Public TV of Armenia, Kentron TV, Nouvelles d’Arménie Magazine, Shant TV Gyumri, The Armenian Reporter and The Armenian Weekly visited Turkey.
The conference Sealed Gate: Prospects of the Turkey-Armenia Border organised by the Hrant Dink Foundation and Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Economics was held in Ankara on November 22-23, 2014.
The panel on “Discrimination and Hate on Media: Social media, representation of difference and activism against discrimination” was held with the participation of Dr. Gavan Titley and Ronald Eissens.
The Oral History Project, which is run by Hrant Dink Foundation with the contribution of Olof Palme Center since 2011, has been concluded for this year. The focus of this year was on Ankara’s Armenians.
We are delighted to announce that the Hrant Dink Foundation will be offering support in the form of a travel grant to a total of 45 individuals – 29 from Turkey, 16 from Armenia – for their visits to the neighbouring country.
The discriminatory language report based on the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on print media and the media watch on hate speech report covering the January – April 2014 period is published.
A group of 9 journalists from Turkey visited Armenia from July 14th to 20th, 2014 in the sixth year of the Turkey-Armenia Journalists’ Dialogue Programme, organised by the Hrant Dink Foundation since 2009.
The Fellowship Scheme will offer 18 professionals from Armenia and Turkey the opportunity to live and follow a special programme at a specific Host Organisation in the neighbouring country for 4 to 8 months.
We are delighted to announce that the Hrant Dink Foundation will be offering support in the form of a travel grant to a total of 51 individuals – 34 from Turkey, 17 from Armenia – for their visits to the neighbouring country.