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 On April 4, the second hearing over “Agos” weekly founder Hrant Dink’s assassination took place in Istanbul juvenile court.

Ogün Samast’s case, the murderer of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, was separated from the main trial because he was under 18 on Jan. 19, 2007, the day of the murder.

Turkish “Hurriyet” online publication writes that Samast blamed the media for the assassination. Samast shot Dink in the back outside the Istanbul offices of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, of which Dink was the chief editor.

According to the source, Samast offered a letter to the court in which he had written: “I am not guilty. The headlines that portrayed Dink as if he was a traitor were guilty. I have [opened my] eyes, now, let the ones who wrote those headlines think about it. Where are the people who have brought me to this process? I did not even know what Agos was.”