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Supporters lament verdict in Hrant Dink case

2012-07-28 41 Dailymotion

A court in Istanbul has convicted Yasin Hayal for inciting the killing five years ago of Hrant Dink, the journalist and rights activist.<br /><br />The court acquitted 19 others, saying there was no wider conspiracy, but Dink's supporters and human rights activists insist some state officials played a part.<br /><br />They marched to the site where Dink was killed in front of his office in Istanbul.<br /><br />Dink was the editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly, Agos, and his articles on Armenian identity, and references to a Turkish "genocide" of Armenians, had repeatedly angered nationalists.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Charlie Angela reports.

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