ARMENIAN AGOS NEWSPAPER’S WEBSITE HACKED

BIA Net
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Feb 12 2010
Turkey

A hacker forced access to the website of Armenian Agos newspaper and
posted a photograph of Hrant Dink murderer suspect Ogun Samast on the
main page. The hacker published threats and insults towards people
who supported assassinated journalist Dink.

Bawer Cakır – Erol Onderoglu Istanbul – BIA News Center12 February
2010, Friday A computer hacker posted a text on the website of weekly
Armenian Agos newspaper which praised Ogun Samast, prime suspect in
the murder case Agos founder Hrant Dink.

In the writing put on the main page the hacker(s) said that the murder
"was done on behalf of the Turkish flag and the Turkish Republic".

Moreover, a photograph of suspect Samast was posted. The actual main
page and pages containing news articles of Agos cannot be accessed
right now.

Besides plenty of spelling mistakes, the text is full of insults and
threats against people who are supporting the newspaper and the Dink
case. At the bottom of the writing it concludes: "The game is over".

Turkish-Armenian Agos editor-in-chief Hrant Dink was killed in front
of the newspaper’s office in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 after he had
been targeted for quite a while on the grounds of his articles and
opinions. Several cases had been filed against rights defender Dink.