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Within the framework of the Hrant Dink murder case, the Turkish prosecutor’s office decided to detain seven police officers and one journalist in connection with being photographed at a police station with Dink’s murderer, Ogün Samast.

The journalist and six police officers have been detained, and the seventh policeman is being searched for, according to Cumhuriyet newspaper of Turkey.

Following Dink’s assassination, several police officers had taken photographs with Samast at a police station in Samsun, and posted them on the Internet.

Journalist Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian bilingual weekly of Istanbul, 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 this murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in this assassination.

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