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Armenian Agos Newspaper’s Website Hacked

ARMENIAN AGOS NEWSPAPER’S WEBSITE HACKED

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.02.2010 14:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 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, BIA News Center reported.

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".

Hrant Dink (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was a
Turkish-Armenian journalist, columnist and editor-in-chief of
Agos bilingual newspaper. Dink was best known for advocating
Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in
Turkey. Charged under the notorious article 301 of the Turkish
Criminal Code, Dink stood a trial for insulting Turkishness. After
numerous death threats, Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in
January 2007, by Ogun Samast, a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist.

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