Turkey
Journalist killed after challenging Turkish historPosted Jan 25 2007
The editor of Agos, the only bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper in Turkey, was gunned down Jan. 19 outside the paper’s office in Istanbul. Hrant Dink, 53, had faced prosecution in the past for challenging the official Turkish version of the Armenian genocide. In 2005 he received a six-month suspended sentence for “humiliating Turkish identity” and most recently angered authorities and in September 2006 when he referred to massacres in Anatolia during the World War I as “genocide.” Turkish police arrested a suspect Jan. 20. Ogun Samast, 17, is believed to be the man seen shooting Dink on a surveillance tape. Police have reported Samast has admitted to the shooting.
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