Hrant Dink

Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink
Born	September 15, 1954; Malatya, Turkey
Died	January 19, 2007 (aged 52); Istanbul, Turkey
Cause of death	Gunshot wounds
Nationality	Armenian
Citizenship	Turkish
Alma mater	Istanbul University
Occupations	Newspaper editor; columnist; journalist;
Notable work	Founder and editor-in-chief of Agos
Spouse	Rakel Yağbasan (m. 1976)
Children	Delal, Arat, Sera

Hrant Dink (Armenian: Հրանդ Տինք, IPA: [həɹɑnt diːnk]) (15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist.^[1]

History[change | change source]

As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos (Ակօս), Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey.

Death[change | change source]

On 19 January 2007, Dink was shot three times in Istanbul by Ogün Samast, a 17 year old ultra-nationalist Turk. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A panorama from Halaskargazi boulevard. One hundred thousand mourners marched in Dink's funeral, protesting his murder. The office of the Agos newspaper, where Dink was gunned down, is near the right edge of the image; it is in the first house to the right from the one with a large black banner hanging down.