ANKARA: Threatening E-Mail To Agos Newspaper

THREATENING E-MAIL TO AGOS NEWSPAPER

BIA Magazine
June 1 2009
Turkey

Assasinated Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dinks newspaper Agos receives
an e-mail threat signed as TIT. Newspapers lawyer Cetin says that
they filed a complaint about the threat and wont be intimidated by
such efforts.

Agos newspaper received an e-mail threat today. Founder of the
bilingual newspaper, Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink was gunned
down by an extremist nationalist last Friday.

Lawyer of the newspaper Fethiye Cetin said they immediately filed a
complaint about the threat, which was signed as Turkish Revenge Brigade
(TÄ°T), a notorious clandestine group responsible for several killings
of leftist militants during 1980’s.

"This is their last efforts to intimidate us. We’ll do what’s necessary
and won’t tolerate such threats", said Cetin.

Reminding the hundreds of thousands who gathered for Hrant Dink’s
funeral yesterday, "We’ll overcome these obstacles in solidarity",
she said.

The e-mail message threatens of a bomb attack to the newspaper,
which continued receiving such threats even after Dink’s
assassination.