ISTANBUL. – Turkish Taraf daily’s journalist, Istanbul Armenian Markar Esayan responded, on his Twitter account, to Turkey’s Minister of Work and Social Security, Faruk Celik, who had criticized those who had recently marched for Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007—and stated “We are all Armenian.” In this connection Celik had said there is no need to change one’s identity.    

“Faruk Celik thinks those who say ‘We are all Armenian’ will go to the personal data registry department and change their identity. Is that a sin? Someone should explain to him the reality,” Markar Esayan tweeted.   

The Turkish minister had claimed that there is no need to change one’s identity to criticize Dink’s murder. “It is enough to have a conscience,” he had stated.