Yesterday after a most successful thesis presentation, I was back home just beginning to enjoy my well-earned holiday, when I heard that one of the prominent Armenian Turkish journalists Hirant Dink was murdered, probably by some fascist SOB. Hirant Dink was a humanist, trying to solve the “Genocide” crisis by trying to construct a bridge between the nationalist Turks and the nationalist Armenians who have been fighting for a hundred years. He was truly an honest person trying to end this feud, but he was brutally murdered. He’s been tried because of the silly nationalist law of `insulting Turkishness` this year because some of his words were taken out of context by Ultra-Nationalist scum, and now despite protests by thousands of people, there are still some people who are celebrating his death (not humans!)

Now I don’t know what to say, I have been terribly sad for the last two days and I’ve been trying to fight these nonhuman bastards constantly, but some ideas & beliefs never go away, including the `supremacy of any race`. It’s sad to see my country has been divided, like the Reps and Dems of US, partizanship rages on and the worst is, the nationalists are now saying that he was a nice guy despite calling him a “traitor” for the past six months making him Public Enemy No. 1. Now they aren’t taking the blame just like the Neocon bastards who aren’t taking the blame for the mess in Iraq.

I’m so ashamed that something like this has happened, he was truly a wonderful guy, who wasn’t understood neither by the Armenians nor the Turks. It seems the world is still a bitter place and sometimes I lose my faith that it will change without a huge world war or some global catacylsm. If you remember the song I featured on New Years Eve, it was a song by Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Richard Hagopyan, it’s so ironic that someone who symbolizes the real brotherhood between Armenians and Turks is dead now and people like us who want Turkey to resolve its problems with all the countries and be more democratic is now less powerful.

So for anyone out there sharing our views on peace and fighting this madness in the world that’s created by Religion and Nationalism, here are some songs from Turkish Armenian Arto Tuncboyaciyan and his Armenian Navy Band. We’ll be attending the funeral, and hopefully there will be thousands of people there who support democracy against these ignorant fascist bastards.

God bless his soul and may we all fight in his spirit to rid the world of ignorance and hatred.

Artostan – Hello Good People
Armenian Navy Band – Earth
Armenian Navy Band – Malkhas Akhber