Armenians in Turkey

The head of the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board has asked for two key names to be removed from the report on the killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, one of the inspectors who prepared the report has said. 

A Turkish court on April 12 ordered the arrest of two noncommissioned officers over their suspected links to the killing of a prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.    
 

Eight suspects, including police and journalists, were arrested on March 28 on charges related to the murder of prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.       
Dink, the founder of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish weekly newspaper Agos, was shot dead in an Istanbul street on Jan. 19, 2007.

Six suspects, including a journalist, were detained on March 21 as part of an ongoing investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Thousands flocked onto the streets of Şişli on Jan. 19 to commemorate Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink on the 10th anniversary of his assassination amid little progress in shining a light on the alleged network behind the decade-old crime.

Osman Gülbel, a former deputy head of the Police Intelligence Department charged in the case on the killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has told an Istanbul court that he "did what he was supposed to do" by sending a document containing information that Dink was to be targeted to the necessary offices. 

Officials did not fail to prevent the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, as the problem actually stemmed from a coordination failure between the police intelligence department and police in Trabzon, where the plot was allegedly organized, former Istanbul police department head Celalettin Cerrah has said. 

A dozen children between the ages 10 and 12 sit in the small meeting room of a renovated building that houses the Panagia Galatousa Chapel, at the heart of İzmir's Agora, the ancient city center.

Religious leaders in Turkey condemned violence in a joint declaration about the coup attempt in the country that started late on July 15. 

"Terror and violence wherever and whoever they come from can never be defended and regarded as legitimate. Killing one person is like killing the entire humanity and is absolutely not accepted by believers," the statement read. 

An exhibition illustrating eight-centuries of Turkish-Armenian relations and hosted in Istanbul by the Turkish Foreign Ministry has been extended due to due to overwhelming interest, with Turkish diplomats expressing the desire to look at Turkish-Armenian relations from a humane perspective.