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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has posted a comment on his Twitter account, and on Friday’s 11th anniversary of the assassination of Istanbul Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.  

“We should never give hatred a place in this region,” Kılıçdaroğlu tweeted. “I commemorate journalist Hrant Dink, who fell victim to an assassination 11 years ago, with respect.”

Remembrance events devoted to Dink are held Friday in Istanbul.

Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, was gunned down on January 19, 2007, outside the then office of this newspaper.

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 into this murder case, and regarding numerous former and serving senior Turkish officials’ complicity in this assassination.

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