The crisis of bourgeois democracy: the fate of an experiment in the age of nationalism, populism, and neo-liberalism
Journal: New Perspectives on Turkey
Year: 2017

In the middle of the day on Friday, January 19, 2007, on a main street in Istanbul, in front of his office, Hrant Dink, the courageous editor of the Armenian and Turkish bilingual newspaper Agos, was murdered by a seventeen-year-old man whom he had never met. Shot three times in the nape of the neck, he lay face down on the sidewalk, blood pooling beneath him. His killer fled, brandishing his pistol and shouting, "I have killed an Armenian!" Dink was killed not for any deed or personal grudge, b