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  • Chirac: Slaying of Turkish-Armenian Journalist 'abominable act'

    Focus News, Bulgaria
    Jan 20 2007

    Slaying of Turkish-Armenian Journalist 'abominable act': Chirac


    20 January 2007 | 02:08 | FOCUS News Agency


    Paris. French President Jacques Chirac on Friday condemned the
    assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink as "an
    abominable act", AFP reports.
    "I can't express strongly enough how I condemn this abominable act,
    which deprives Turkey of one of its most courageous and free voices,"
    wrote the French leader in a letter addressed to the journalist's
    widow.
    Dink, the 53-year-old editor of the weekly Agos newspaper, died when
    an unidentified gunman shot him three times in the head and neck
    outside his office in Istanbul.
    "Hrant Dink was a fighter for freedom and defender of human rights,"
    wrote Chirac, who also described Dink as an advocate for
    reconciliation between Turks and Armenians.
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