Hrant Dink

A newspaper that is the disgrace of society's Islamic segment reported the killing of Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi with these words: 

"You were saying that the PKK was not a terror organization - Here's terror for you." 

The curtain has come down on the Turkish pavilion at the 56th Venice biennale following a six-month festival of art.

Turkey's entry at the 56th International Art Exhibition, an installation titled "Respiro" by influential conceptual artist Sarkis, received great interest from local and international media as well as the art world. 

The triggerman who shot dead Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink almost nine years ago has appealed to present his testimony as part of the "criminal organization" leg of the case into the murder. The assassin Ogün Samast has also asked to be transferred to a prison in Istanbul near to where the case is being held.

Lawyers of the victim have reacted against the authorities' decision to return the indictment involving suspected public servants in the January 2007 murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation. The return means that cases will likely not be opened against the suspects.

The land title of the iconic Armenian orphanage Kamp Armen has been given back to an Armenian protestant church foundation, daily Agos has reported.

The process of returning the real estate deed for Kamp Armen, located in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, has been completed, the lawyer of Gedikpa?a Armenian Protestant Church Foundation Sebu Aslangil has announced.

Turkey's top police intel chief and two former police intel unit heads may face up to 25 years in prison each in the investigation launched into the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Today, it is absolutely certain that Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink was victim to a murder that could have been easily prevented. 

Just like Gabriel García Márquez Marquez's novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," everybody knew who was going to be killed and who would commit the murder. 

An Istanbul prosecutor has unearthed files which show that Trabzon police intelligence had known about Ogün Samast, the hitman in Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink?s murder, before the incident took place.

Five former police officers recently detained on the charge of "negligence on public duty" have been released, and four others under arrest have been cleared of charges of "committing deliberate murder," "forming an illegal organization," and "membership of an illegal organization to commit crime" in the murder case of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Seven former police officers have been detained on charges of "negligence on public duty," as fresh evidence surfaced in the case into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.