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Turkish court sentences Dink assassin to 23 years

Turkish court sentences Dink assassin to 23 years

25 July 2011 18:58 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. An Istanbul court sentenced on Monday the assassin of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to nearly 23 years in prison, APA reports referring Reuters.
Editor of bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, Dink was shot in broad daylight as he left his Istanbul office in January 2007.
His killer Ogun Samast was 17 and unemployed when the killing took place. He was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and 10 months.
Dink had angered nationalists with articles referring to a Turkish "genocide" of Armenians in 1915.
Another court is hearing the cases against two other main suspects in the conspiracy and a handful of others accused of being linked to the plot.

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