Award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein will deliver the 2010 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Freedom of Expression and Human Rights at Bogazici University in Istanbul on Jan. 25.
The lecture, titled “The Power of Being Consistent: Insisting on Palestinian Humanity in the Western Media,” will start at 3 p.m. at the Albert Long Hall (BTS), South Campus.
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, political figure and author of numerous books which have become best-sellers. She also writes a regular column for the Nation and the Guardian.
In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aranson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
Hrant Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007 near his office in Istanbul. Almost two years after his death, the murderers were convicted. But new details are still being disclosed, particularly, concerning Ergenekon terrorist organization’s complicity in the crime. Dink’s murderer Ogun Samast (18) was recognized of full legal age at the time of committing the crime. Court procedures revealed a third person’s involvement in the affair. Following Dink’s murder, Noble Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk left Turkey for fear of being subjected to physical violence.
