All Headline News
Jan 19 2007
Editor Of Turkey’s Armenian Newspaper Assasinated
January 19, 2007 2:41 p.m. EST
Linda Young – All Headline News Staff Writer
Istanbul, Turkey (AHN) – Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish newspaper
editor was and killed outside his office on Friday. Dink, 53, was the
editor of Turkey’s only Armenian language newspaper.
He had served as editor-in-chief and columnist of the Agos from 1996
until his death today from a gunshot wound to the head. Dink was born
in western Armenia and immigrated, at age 7, with his family to
Turkey.
Dink was convicted of insulting the Turkish state last year over
comments he made about the mass deaths during World War I of ethnic
Armenians in what is now Turkey. Dink received a six-month suspended
sentence.
Many Armenians and foreign historians view the WWI deaths as Turkish
genocide but the Turkish government denies the events took place.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Bloomberg news that he
condemned the murder as an attack against the "Turkish nation’s
togetherness and peace and Turkey’s stability.” Turkish stocks fell
after the killing, Bloomberg reported.
Dink was leaving his office in the early afternoon when he was shot
three times by unknown assailants, the New York Times reported that
Turkey’s semiofficial Anatolian News Agency reported today.
Both the New York Times and Bloomberg News reported that Dink had
received numerous threats against his life.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
