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  • ANKARA: Turkish organizations condemn journalist's killing

    Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
    Jan 20 2007

    TURKISH ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN JOURNALIST'S KILLING


    Washington, DC, 20 January: Washington-based Turkish American
    Associations Assembly (TAAA) strongly condemned on Saturday [20
    January] the killing of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and
    urged every effort to bring to justice and punish perpetrators of
    this vicious murder.

    "The killing of Mr Dink is a great loss to Turkey. He was a respected
    member and voice of Istanbul's prosperous and growing Armenian
    community," a statement by the TAAA said.

    A group of people, including European Turkish parliamentarians, laid
    a wrath in front of the building of Dink's bilingual weekly Agos.

    Civil servants' union Memur-sen and moral rights workers' union
    Hak-Is also condemned the attack.

    Meanwhile, Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Vartholomeos said that the
    attack on Dink was a provocation attempt against the ideal of
    peaceful coexistence of different cultures in Turkey.

    "We are deeply saddened by the heinous assassination of Hrant Dink,
    one of our country's prominent journalists," Vartholomeos told
    journalists before his departure to France.
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