Turkish police have arrested suspects in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who had been in trouble for "insulting Turkishness" for his writings on the Armenian genocide.

What I found interesting, however, are these excerpts from his final article published on Jan. 19 -- the same day he died.

Some excerpts from the BBC story:

The judge had made a decision in the name of the "Turkish nation" and had it legally registered that I had "denigrated Turkishness." I could have coped with anything but this.

In my understanding, the denigration of a person on the basis of any difference - ethnic or religious - is racism, and there was no way this could ever be forgiven...

Those who tried to single me out and weaken me have succeeded. With the false information they oozed into society, they created a significant segment of the population who view Hrant Dink as someone who "insults Turkishness".

The memory of my computer is filled with angry, threatening lines sent by citizens from this sector...

How real are these threats? To be honest, it is impossible for me to know for sure.

What is truly threatening and unbearable for me is the psychological torture I place myself in. The question that really gets to me, is: 'What are these people thinking about me?'

Unfortunately I am now better-known than before and I feel people looking at me, thinking: 'Oh, look, isn't he that Armenian guy?'

I am just like a pigeon, equally obsessed by what goes-on on my left and right, front and back. My head is just as mobile and fast. ...

2007 will probably be an even harder year for me. The court cases will continue, new ones will be initiated and God knows what kind of additional injustices I will have to face.

I may see myself as frightened as a pigeon, but I know that in this country people do not touch pigeons.

Pigeons can live in cities, even in crowds. A little scared perhaps, but free.

Here's the BBC obituary of Dink.

Here's another article by BBC journo Chris Morris on Dink's refusal to be silenced:

In one interview he said the difference between him and Armenians abroad was that he was living with the Turks of today, while they were still living with the Turks of 1915.

In fact there are tens of thousands of Armenians in modern Istanbul - they have their own churches, their own schools.

As long as they do not raise the past too publicly, as Hrant Dink did, they are left to get on with life.

It is in eastern Anatolia, in eastern Turkey, that the Armenians and their culture have all but disappeared.

Where there were more than a million Armenians 100 years ago, there are only a few scattered families left.

Silence has brought a degree of protection to Turkey's remaining Armenian communities.

But Hrant Dink refused to be silent.

It brought him into constant conflict with the law. And in some eyes it made him a traitor.