YEREVAN. – The Turks were aware that Hrant Dink’s restraint was lot more dangerous than the most fanatical extremism, and therefore they decided to eliminate him.

Analyst Haykazun Alvrtsyan noted the aforesaid during a press conference on Saturday, and he added that this is the modus operandi of the Turks.

“We all know who really ordered the murder of Hrant Dink [the founder and chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building],” he noted.

In Alvrtsyan’s words, it is not solely the army which has power and leverage in Turkey, and all power structures are actually in the hands of the state itself.

“The internal and the external system of governance in Turkey is quite different. It is not a secret that Dink was killed by the order of the state structure, [and] with the help of the secret services. But it is early to make any predictions,” he stated.       

Haykazun Alvrtsyan stressed that settling political matters through murder is an accepted practice in Turkey, ever since the first day of the founding of the Turkish state.