19 January 2007
Hrant Dink
Shooting
Dink, the high-profile editor of newspaper Agos, was shot three times outside its offices in Istanbul, the paper said.
Dink was one of the writers who had been prosecuted under Turkey's strict laws against "insulting Turkishness". He was given a six-month suspended sentence in October 2005 after writing about the Armenian "genocide" of 1915. Dink, 53, had received threats from nationalists who viewed him as a traitor, the Associated Press news agency reported. He was a public figure in Turkey - one of its most prominent Armenian voices.
