Oh not a waste...not a waste. Hrant Dink opened the space for millions with his life, his beliefs, his acts...and now with his death. Today as we marched across Istanbul, tens of thousands of people, sometimes applauding, sometimes silent and sobbing, the shift in the conscience of people was palpable. Finally people of this land, Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and all the others gathered to honor one big man's life and work and there are so many of us who cares, who says enough to this tragedy.
The shame and weight of this crime is in our hearts. Along with the gratitude for Hrant Dink planted seeds of peace and solidarity in our hearts. For sure one march is not enough, there is much more to do on our side. I hope that this will be the start of reconciliation between the peoples of this land. Today we were all Hrant Dink, we were all Armenian. Filiz -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael M Pannwitz Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:53 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: i am hrant, i am armenian Dear Nuran, just returned, met Serpil there with her family! It was a great wake! I think there were 500 people there, standing in circles as in open space around a tree where there were pictures of Hran and torches and candles...and some speakers that used mostly Turk languages. I was touched. What a tragedy. What a waste. It's so hard to say "Whatever happened...." in those moments. Martin Luther King was mentioned, I just heard a speaker say his name. I remember so well when he was murdered just a few miles down the road from where I was working and living then. What changes since then and so much till to do. Leaving on Thursday to facilitate an open space for 130 mostly women and children on the topic of "Less government, more family!"...it will be a peaceful event... Greetings from Berlin the icewinds have taken hold of the city mmp Nuran Yigit wrote: > Great man, great loss for turkey and the peace-movement in the world. > I am now going to the gathering... > Nuran, Berlin > > >> From: Michael M Pannwitz <mmpa...@boscop.de> >> Reply-To: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> >> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >> Subject: i am hrant, i am armenian >> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:54:10 +0100 >> >> Dear Funda, >> in 41 minutes there will be a gathering in memory of hrant at >> Kottbusser Tor in Berlin, very close to the place where we always meet >> for our local Berlin stammtisch. >> Greetings from Berlin where there are also many that are very decisive >> about peace... as I imagine in millions of places worldwide >> mmp >> >> funda oral wrote: >> >>> i have participated to the funeral of a wonderful man, an >>> armenian-turkish journalist, thousands >>> of people had the following sentence is their hand both armenian and >>> turkish >>> "i am hrant (his name), i am armenian.........." >>> i met filiz by chance >>> everbody just came by her/him self >>> thousands of individual participants who came together at one >>> feeling with one sentence >>> funda >>> from istanbul, where thousands maybe millions of people are very >>> decisive about peace >> >> * >> * >> ========================================================== >> osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >> ------------------------------ >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >> view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: >> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html >> >> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >> http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > _________________________________________________________________ > Haben Spinnen Ohren? Finden Sie es heraus - mit dem MSN Suche Superquiz > via http://www.msn-superquiz.de Jetzt mitmachen und gewinnen! > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist