The report covering January - April 2012 is based on the analysis of hate speech towards national, ethnic and religious identities along with content targeting LGBTI individuals and women.
The conference held on 21-22 March 2012 at Istanbul Bilgi University and Kadir Has University took place with the participation of Dr. Sejal Parmar, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Esra Arsan and Mahmut Çınar.
The restoration of the two historic fountains in Ekinözü (Habap-Havav) Village, in the Kovancılar district of Elazığ province, was carried out in August – November 2011 by researchers and volunteer architects.
The second term of the project started on March 31, 2011 and ended on December 10, 2011, on the Human Rights Day and a total of 62 conscience-themed short films were uploaded to the project website.
The exhibition, designed by Erkal Yavi was shown on April 13-30 in Istanbul, Bahçehir University and on May 13-31 in Ankara, Çankaya Municipality Exhibition Hall for Contemporary Art.
The scientific meeting of the Social and Economic History of Diyarbakır and the Region was held, which met with a great interest in the region and organized by Hrant Dink Foundation in Diyarbakır.
6 local journalists and 2 NGO representatives from Afyon, 2 local journalists from Uşak and 20 students from The Communication Faculty of Eskisehir University participated to the workshop.
8 journalists from Turkey visited Armenia from June 27th to July 3rd 2011 in the third year of Turkey-Armenia Journalist Dialogue Programme; organized by Hrant Dink Foundation in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey Office.
The aim of the one-day workshop was to raise awareness against hate speech that reproduces prejudices in the society, supports discriminative feelings and provokes hate crimes.
The guest speaker of our monthly talk was Nouritza Matossian. Matossian told us about the extra-ordinary life story of the world-famous artist Arshile Gorky, aka Manoug Adoyan, and how he discovered Gorky's Armenian roots.
What was the role of the Armenian women in Ottoman women's movement? Why do we know so little about Ottoman Armenian women writers? What will we face when we look for feminism in the Armenian society?
The first of the Hrant Dink Foundation talks planned to be organized by periodically was on February 26, 2011. The talk followed the screening of Avedikian’s animation «Chienne d’Histoire».