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HRANT DINK'S ASSASSIN HOSPITALIZED
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Oct 22 2007
The teenage killer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was
hospitalized on Saturday, Kocaeli State Hospital Head Physician
Dr. Þenol Erguney announced yesterday.
Serving his term of imprisonment in the Kandýra F-type prison in
the northwestern province of Kocaeli, Ogun Samast, the triggerman of
the murder of the Agos newspaper editor-in-chief, was taken to the
Kocaeli State Hospital around 8 p.m. on Saturday under tight security
measures with complaints of high fever and stomachache. Hospital
officials announced that Samast, who was previously hospitalized on
Feb. 21 and underwent an appendectomy, is in good condition and will
be discharged from the hospital soon. Samast, a 17-year old Turkish
nationalist, was recently sentenced to 10 years and eight months'
imprisonment for murdering Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual
Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos in Ýstanbul in January 2007. Dink was
best known for advocating Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and minority
rights in Turkey and was often critical of both Turkey's denial of
the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for
its international recognition.
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Today's Zaman, Turkey
Oct 22 2007
The teenage killer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was
hospitalized on Saturday, Kocaeli State Hospital Head Physician
Dr. Þenol Erguney announced yesterday.
Serving his term of imprisonment in the Kandýra F-type prison in
the northwestern province of Kocaeli, Ogun Samast, the triggerman of
the murder of the Agos newspaper editor-in-chief, was taken to the
Kocaeli State Hospital around 8 p.m. on Saturday under tight security
measures with complaints of high fever and stomachache. Hospital
officials announced that Samast, who was previously hospitalized on
Feb. 21 and underwent an appendectomy, is in good condition and will
be discharged from the hospital soon. Samast, a 17-year old Turkish
nationalist, was recently sentenced to 10 years and eight months'
imprisonment for murdering Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual
Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos in Ýstanbul in January 2007. Dink was
best known for advocating Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and minority
rights in Turkey and was often critical of both Turkey's denial of
the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for
its international recognition.
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