United Press International
Jan 21 2007
Reported confession in Dink’s death
Jan. 21, 2007 at 7:25AM
The teenager accused of killing Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant
Dink in Istanbul has reportedly confessed and said he has no regrets
for the act.
The official Turkish news agency, Anatolia, says 17-year-old
Ogun Samast made the comment after his arrest Saturday. The youth’s
father identified him from a video of the Friday shooting and tipped
off police.
Dink, who was editor of the Agos newspaper, was shot outside
the newspaper’s office. He had received death threats for his
writings about the killing of Armenians in Turkey from 1915 to 1915,
a controversial topic in Turkey.
Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said Samast was arrested on a bus
in Samsun on his way to Trabzon, Turkey.
CNN reported at least a dozen other people were being held in
Dink’s death in Trabzon and six of them were going to be brought to
Istanbul Sunday for questioning.