A court in Turkey has sentenced several former police chiefs and security officials to life in prison in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish journalist of Armenian origin whose killing became a rallying cry for the country’s Armenian minority.
Dink, the 52-year-old editor of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, was gunned down in broad daylight on a crowded Istanbul street after leaving his office. The shooter, Omar Samast, was an unemployed 17-year-old who said he viewed Dink as a traitor to Turkey. Samast was sentenced in 2011 to nearly 23 years in prison.
