Focus News, Bulgaria
Jan 20 2007
Slaying of Turkish-Armenian Journalist ‘abominable act’: Chirac
20 January 2007 | 02:08 | FOCUS News Agency
Paris. French President Jacques Chirac on Friday condemned the
assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink as "an
abominable act", AFP reports.
"I can’t express strongly enough how I condemn this abominable act,
which deprives Turkey of one of its most courageous and free voices,"
wrote the French leader in a letter addressed to the journalist’s
widow.
Dink, the 53-year-old editor of the weekly Agos newspaper, died when
an unidentified gunman shot him three times in the head and neck
outside his office in Istanbul.
"Hrant Dink was a fighter for freedom and defender of human rights,"
wrote Chirac, who also described Dink as an advocate for
reconciliation between Turks and Armenians.
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