[2] She is the widow of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist and human rights activist of Armenian origin who was assassinated on 19 January 2007.
[1] She grew up in the Armenian orphanage, Kamp Armen, in Tuzla and served as the camp's manager for many years.
[1][3] After living a migrant life in bristle tents for a while, the tribe settled in the village of Varto, today called Yolağzı.
Members of the tribe moved to Istanbul in 1978[7] and later to Belgium and France in the 1980s, and Dink's father Siyament died in Brussels in 2004.
Rakel Dink, who did not speak any languages other than Kurdish at the time, learned Turkish and Armenian in Istanbul.
[10] A funeral was organized for Hrant Dink on 23 January 2007, which was attended by a large number of people.