1 Modern Turkey has not changed since Ottoman timesAssassination of Hrant Dink, intimidation of AAC Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrob Mutafyan to an extent that deprived him from aptitude to continue his activity, and threatening of migrant workers from Armenia are all the links of one chain. January 20, 2012 The Istanbul court marked the fifth anniversary of assassination of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper “Agos”, in a very peculiar manner: one of the organizers of assassination, Yasin Hayal is sentenced to life imprisonment for incitement to murder, 18 suspects are released to freedom, including Erhan Tuncel, who together with Hayal planned the assassination. The court also resolved that Dink’s murder did not result from conspiracy of a radical group... 1 |