Agos
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| description | Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper |
| publishing company | Agos Yayıncılık |
| First edition | April 5, 1996 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Sold edition | ~ 5,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Yetvart Danzikyan |
| editor | Arat Dink (son of Hrant Dink †) |
| Web link | www.agos.com.tr |
Agos ( Armenian Ակոս ) is the first Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper in Turkey. It appears bilingual in Armenian and Turkish in Istanbul . Was founded Agos by Luiz Bakar , Hrant Dink , Harutyun Şeşetyan and Anna Turay . The first issue appeared on April 5, 1996.
The co-founder and editor of Agos , Hrant Dink, was shot while leaving the newspaper building on January 19, 2007 after ultra-national Turkish circles labeled him a traitor to the Turkish Republic and threatened him with death several times.
The circulation of Agos is around 5,000, but in the months after Dink's murder it was now over 10,000.
The newspaper is a thorn in the side of Turkish ultra-nationalists , and editors and journalists have often been threatened. Series of articles reported on the disappeared evidence of Armenian culture such as churches, villages and schools in Anatolia, indirectly addressing the genocide of the Armenians , denied by the state in Turkey . At the end of February 2004, ultra-nationalist Turks demonstrated in front of the editorial office and chanted: “Either you love this country or you are leaving it.” The newspaper had mentioned that Ataturk's first adopted daughter may have been an Armenian . The journalists from Agos and especially Hrant Dink received massive death threats.
Up until his murder, Dink had been charged several times, always on the basis of Section 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which criminalizes "insulting Turkish citizenship" and which the EU has long been demanding to be deleted, and had already been convicted once.
After Dink's murder, the public prosecutor launched a new investigation into the Agos magazine for "insulting Turkish citizenship ", this time Agos columnist Aydın Engin having to answer to the public prosecutor's office.
In 2007 Agos was awarded the Hermann Kesten Medal of the PEN Center Germany in honor of its former editor Hrant Dink .
Employee
Editors-in-chief
- Hrant Dink (April 1996 - January 2007)
- Etyen Mahçupyan (January 2007 - May 2010)
- Rober Koptaş (June 2010 - January 2015)
- Yetvart Danzikyan (since February 2015)
Well-known (former) authors
See also
Web links
- Agos - Official Website
- Report on Agos u. a. Armenian newspapers in Turkey. ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Rundschau
- Murder of Hrant Dink - provocation for the Turkish nationalists . FAZ.net
- Critical journalists continue to be under pressure . Mirror online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Gottschlich : "Behind guarded doors. (On the 1st anniversary of Hrant Dink's death)", Die Tageszeitung , 19./20. January 2007