The Human Rights Watch international non-governmental organization urged the Turkish authorities to increase their efforts to bring to justice those involved in the Hrant Dink assassination.

According to Emma Sinclair-Webb, a Human Rights Watch expert to Turkey, European Court’s verdict does not mean Turkey should stop efforts to administer justice on Hrant Dink murder. She stressed Ankara must re-launch the investigation on Dink case.

The European Court of Human Rights found the Turkish state guilty of Hrant Dink’s murder.

The court found the Turkish state guilty on two charges, sentencing the state to pay 133,595 euros to Dink's family in compensation and an extra payment of 28,595 euros to the court for expenditures.

Turkish-Armenian journalist, chief editor of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007, by a Turkish nationalist. He was critical of Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide in his columns in Agos. Dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.