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    WCBS-TV New York, NY
    March 4 2007

    Memorial To Be Held For Assasinated Journalist
    Murdered Outside Istanbul Office For 'Insulting Turkishness'

    (CBS/AP) NEW YORK Members of the Armenian-American community are
    holding a joint memorial and requiem service today honoring a slain
    Armenian-Turkish journalist.

    Hrant Dank was assassinated outside the office of his Istanbul-based
    newspaper Argos on January 19, 2007 for insulting Turkishness.

    He was well regarded in the Armenian community for having the courage
    to speak out on the Armenian genocide, in which the Ottoman Empire
    forcefully removed and killed over a million Armenians.

    Dank's raising of the subject caused controversy in Turkey.

    The memorial service honoring the slain journalist is being held at
    the Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan.
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