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A place in Paris will be named after the late Istanbul Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of international relations and La Francophonie, Arnaud Ngatcha, said, Armenpress reported.

In a statement on social media, the Paris Deputy Mayor said that January 19 marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Hrant Dink who was killed in Istanbul. He reminded that Dink had received the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for his activities in freedom of speech and reconciliation of Armenians and Turks.

“Paris will honor his memory by naming a place after him in the 13th arrondissement of the city,” Ngatcha added.

To note, Hrant Dink—the editor-in-chief of Agos, the only weekly published in Armenian and Turkish in Turkey—was shot dead from the three gunshots fired to his head from behind by Turkish ultra-nationalist minor Ogun Samast on January 19, 2007, in front of the then office of this newspaper—and on national grounds. In 2011, Samast was convicted of Dink's assassination and sentenced to 22 years in prison, but questions still remain about the involvement of the Turkish state in the case.

In June 2007, Hrant Dink was posthumously given the award of the President of Armenia.

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