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If you were to think the assassination of a journalist half a world away wouldn’t matter to students in the United States, you’d be wrong—as this article from the University of Texas shows. Students from various organizations held a memorial service for the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was assassinated in Turkey earlier this month. Current tensions between Turks and Armenians have roots in the Turkish government’s denial of the massive (or, genocidal) casualties among Armenians from 1915-1917. Many considered Dink to be a voice of reason and compromise between the two groups, and his paper, Argos, was published in both languages. Students from both the Armenian Cultural Association and the Turkish University Students Association were in attendance at the University of Texas memorial.

1/24/07 Read More from the University of Texas