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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9348

20 January 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Olli Rehn “shocked” by the murder of Hrant Dink, “a defender of freedom of expression in Turkey

Brussels, 19/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Friday that he was « shocked and saddened” by the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Mr Dink, who, last year, was given a six-month suspended sentence for insulting Turkish identity (on the basis of Article 301 of the Penal Code, which has been strongly criticised by the EU), was shot dead on Friday outside the Istanbul offices of his weekly newspaper, Agos. “Hrant Dink was a respected...

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