Istanbul street named after Hrant Dink
The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Assembly has adopted a decision to rename a street in the Turkish city in honor of slain Armenian editor and journalist, Hrant Dink.
Samanyolu (Milky Way) Street in Sisli district has been changed to Hrant Dink Street, Ermenihaber reports.
Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, was shot dead at the age of 52 in broad daylight by an ultranationalist outside his office in central Istanbul on January 19, 2007.
Ogun Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed to the killing and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail back in 2011.
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