Talin Suciyan
Translated into English by Serhat Uyurkulak
A bullet from a fellow Turkish soldier killed an Armenian soldier, 25-year-old Sevak Sahin Balikcin, on April 24, 2011, three weeks before the latter were discharged from his military service in the army. The killing has been ruled as accidental, although there are contradictory accounts and suspicions that it could have been intentional, including the fact that it happened in such a symbolic date. This article by journalist Talin Suciyan, written as a response to the discourse surrounding the killing, was published in Turkish and Armenian in the issue 787 of the Istanbul-based "Agos" weekly (May 6, 2011). We have reprinted the English version from the blog "Azad Alik" (azadalik.wordpress.com). The title is ours.
