Turkish Police Launch Operation to Arrest Dink’s Assassin

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Turkish Police Launch Operation to Arrest Dink’s Assassin
19.01.2007 18:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish police carry out their
operations in Istanbul to arrest the suspect of the
murder of Turkish journalist of Armenian descent Hrant
Dink, editor-in-chief of Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos,
reports Anadoglu agency. Hrant Dink was shot dead in
the center of Istanbul today. Dink was one of the
writers who had been prosecuted under the notorious
Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. He was given a
six-month suspended sentence in October 2005 after
writing about the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Dink had
received threats from nationalists who viewed him as a
traitor.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS