Sezgin Tanrikulu, Vice-Chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), submitted a written proposal to the chairmanship of the country’s parliament. 

Tanrikulu proposed that a street in Istanbul be named after Hrant Dink, Vatan daily of Turkey reports.  

The proposal requires that amendments be made in the Istanbul Municipality Law, whereby a street in Istanbul’s Sisli district can be renamed after Dink  

The CHP had made such proposals in the past, too, but the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members had objected to these proposals.    

The participants in the remembrance event, which is annually held on the anniversary of Dink’s murder, symbolically remove the Ergenekon Avenue sign and replace it with the Hrant Dink Avenue sign. 

Hrant Dink, the founder and former chief editor of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, was killed on January 19, 2007 in front of the Agos office. The ongoing trials into Dink’s murder, however, have not yet exposed those behind this assassination.