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  • ANKARA: PM: journalist's killing not to divert Turkey from reforms

    Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
    Jan 19 2007


    Premier says journalist's killing not to divert Turkey from
    democratic reforms


    Ankara, 19 January: "No bloody provocation will prevent Turkey from
    advancing on its path towards freedom and prosperity," Turkish Prime
    Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday [19 January].

    Erdogan attended a ceremony to decorate Guenter Verheugen,
    vice-president of the European Commission, with Association of
    Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen (Tusiad) Foreign Policy Award
    in Ankara.

    In regard to killing of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of bilingual
    Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, Erdogan said that everyone was shocked
    by the assassination.

    "A bullet was fired to free thought and our democratic life with the
    bloody attack against Dink. Two ministers and all security units are
    continuing their investigation," Erdogan noted.

    "I believe that our nation will give the best response to this
    traitorous homicide in unity," he stressed.

    He added that they would keep fulfilling democratic reforms.
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