January 20, 2007

20/1/2007 – TURKEY: KILLING OF HRANT DINK

Vienna, 20 January 2007

Hrant Dink, born 1954 and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish bilingual weekly Agos, was assassinated on 19 January 2007 outside the Agos weekly’s offices in Istanbul. The South East Europe Media Organisation is alarmed about the killing of the journalist and is asking the authorities in Turkey to start a fast investigation.