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- NAME: Hrant Dink
- OCCUPATION: Activist, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: September 15, 1954
- DEATH DATE: January 19, 2007
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Matalya, Turkey
- PLACE OF DEATH: Istanbul, Turkey
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Hrant Dink founded the Turkish-Armenian paper Agos and was murdered in 2007 after writing about the Armenian massacre, which authorities deny ever happened.
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Hrant Dink was a Turkish journalist who founded the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos. After writing an article in which he acknowledged the 1915-16 massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians which the Turkish authorities deny, he was arrested. During a six-month suspension of his sentence, he was shot dead in front of the Agos offices.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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