The Murder of Journalist Hrant Dink
Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul by an ultra-nationalist Turkish teenager on 19 January 2007. His friend, the writer Ece Temelkuran remembers him.
On 19 January 2007, Hrant Dink, Turkey's most prominent Armenian journalist was shot dead by an ultra-nationalist teenager in front of his office in Istanbul. Dink had founded Turkey's only bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos. The murderer confessed to the crime saying he'd killed Dink 'for insulting Turks'. Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran spoke to Cagil Kasapoglu about the day she lost her friend.
Photo: Hrant Dink is pictured on May 19, 2005. (Credit: Burak Kara / Getty Images)
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