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STREET TO BE NAMED AFTER HRANT DINK IN TURKEY
15:23, 5 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. The Malatia Municipality has made
a decision to rename after Hrant Dink the street, where the former
editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based "Agos" newspaper was born. As
reports "Armenpress" citing "Agos" periodical, the Mayor of Malatia
Ahmet Cakır stated this.
Among other things the Mayor of Malatia Ahmed Cakır noted that
there are a number of streets in Malatia bearing the same names and
while making decision on renaming the streets the municipality paid
a special attention on the fact what contribution to the public life
had made the people, who were born in those streets and died because
of certain reasons.
6 years have passed after the assassination of prominent Armenian
journalist from Istanbul, chief editor of "Agos" weekly Hrant Dink.
Hrant Dink was shot dead in Shishli district of Istanbul on January
19, 2007.
15:23, 5 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. The Malatia Municipality has made
a decision to rename after Hrant Dink the street, where the former
editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based "Agos" newspaper was born. As
reports "Armenpress" citing "Agos" periodical, the Mayor of Malatia
Ahmet Cakır stated this.
Among other things the Mayor of Malatia Ahmed Cakır noted that
there are a number of streets in Malatia bearing the same names and
while making decision on renaming the streets the municipality paid
a special attention on the fact what contribution to the public life
had made the people, who were born in those streets and died because
of certain reasons.
6 years have passed after the assassination of prominent Armenian
journalist from Istanbul, chief editor of "Agos" weekly Hrant Dink.
Hrant Dink was shot dead in Shishli district of Istanbul on January
19, 2007.