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YEREVAN. – Thursday, January 19, 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Istanbul-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Dink was the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian bilingual weekly of Istanbul.

He was gunned down on January 19, 2007 in front of then office of Agos.

In 2011, the perpetrator, Ogün Samast, was sentenced by a juvenile court to 22 years and ten months for the murder.

After long court proceedings and appeals, however, a new probe was ultimately launched in the Hrant Dink murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in the assassination.

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