Hakan Karadag, 40, one of the lawyers in Hrant Dink’s trial, was found dead in his house in Istanbul.

According to Hurriyet, Karadag’s girlfriend informed that the day before they had argued while talking on the phone. At 2: 30 a.m. she found the lawyer’s body hanging on the gas pipe.

During the 12th hearing of the Hrant Dink murder case, Karadag got into an argument with Dink’s murderer Ogun Samast. The lawyer told the judge that Samast had threatened him.