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Atýlým, Turkey
Jan 20 2007
Journalist and author Hrant Dink killed
ÝSTANBUL (20.01.2007)- Hrant Dink, journalist and chief editor of
the newspaper Agos was killed following an armed assassination
attempt yesterday at the entrance to the newspaper office.
A new link joined the chain of political assassinations in Turkey.
Hrant Dink who had become the target of racist fascists because of
his statements concerning Armenian and Kurdish question was killed
today. He had been charged and sentenced rdue to Article 301 of the
Turkish Penal Code a short time ago because of his commentaries. The
killing of Dink attracts a lot of attention happening after the
conference of intellectuals in Ankara who had emphasized their demand
for democratical solution in the Kurdish question.
According to the first information provided by the office of the
director of public prosecutions, Dink lost his life because of two
bullets in his head at the entrance to the newspaper office. It was
also said that the murderer must be 18 or 19 years old and that he
left taking a vehicle on Halaskargazi Street.
He was threatened before
Aydin Engin, Hrant Dink's colleague and journalist, declared that
Dink had been threatened by different people, amog them officials,
too. Engin said that some time ago Dink received a phone call by one
of the governor assisstants of Istanbul and remembered:
"When Hrant Dink went there, nobody cared. There were two people with
the governor assistant whom he introduced as 'My relatives'. Then one
of the two, a man, hold a long speech saying. There are lots of
people on the streets and something might happen to you'. Hrant Dink
had told about this incident when he applied to the European Court of
Human Rights. '
Jan 20 2007
Journalist and author Hrant Dink killed
ÝSTANBUL (20.01.2007)- Hrant Dink, journalist and chief editor of
the newspaper Agos was killed following an armed assassination
attempt yesterday at the entrance to the newspaper office.
A new link joined the chain of political assassinations in Turkey.
Hrant Dink who had become the target of racist fascists because of
his statements concerning Armenian and Kurdish question was killed
today. He had been charged and sentenced rdue to Article 301 of the
Turkish Penal Code a short time ago because of his commentaries. The
killing of Dink attracts a lot of attention happening after the
conference of intellectuals in Ankara who had emphasized their demand
for democratical solution in the Kurdish question.
According to the first information provided by the office of the
director of public prosecutions, Dink lost his life because of two
bullets in his head at the entrance to the newspaper office. It was
also said that the murderer must be 18 or 19 years old and that he
left taking a vehicle on Halaskargazi Street.
He was threatened before
Aydin Engin, Hrant Dink's colleague and journalist, declared that
Dink had been threatened by different people, amog them officials,
too. Engin said that some time ago Dink received a phone call by one
of the governor assisstants of Istanbul and remembered:
"When Hrant Dink went there, nobody cared. There were two people with
the governor assistant whom he introduced as 'My relatives'. Then one
of the two, a man, hold a long speech saying. There are lots of
people on the streets and something might happen to you'. Hrant Dink
had told about this incident when he applied to the European Court of
Human Rights. '