TURKISH NATIONALIST OPPOSES CALLING HRANT DINK A MARTYR
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March 27, 2012 | 14:38
Leader of Turkish nationalist party criticized Minister of Family
and Social Policies Fatma Sahin for her proposal to declare Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink a martyr.
Head of Nationalist Movement party Devlet Bahceli slammed authorities
for their plans to declare civilian a martyr, T24 website reports.
Earlier the Minister said in case Dink’s family applies to the
province’s authorities, Dink may be declared a martyr by the decision
of the commission.
Hrant Dink, chief editor of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish Agos
newspaper, was killed near his office in Istanbul on January 19,
2007 by Turkish ultranationalist Ogun Samast.
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