Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-01-19
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[01] PASOK leader condemns Turkish-Armenian journalist's murder
[01] PASOK leader condemns Turkish-Armenian journalist's murder
Main opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) leader and
Socialist International (SI) President George Papandreou made a
statement on Friday condemning the assassination of Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul earlier in the day.
"Hrant Dink was an intellectual journalist who worked hard with
consistency, a profound feeling of responsibility and great energy for
democratic rights and freedom of the Press in Turkey, facing judicial
prosecutions," he said.
High-profile Turkish-Armenian editor, Hrant Dink, a frequent target of
nationalist anger for his comments on the mass killings of Armenians by
Ottoman Turks during World War One, was shot as he left his weekly
newspaper Agos around 1300 GMT Friday in the centre of Istanbul.
"His assassination is an act of violence that constitutes a blow to
efforts being made to strengthen the country's European prospects,"
Papandreou added and pointed out that "Hrant Dink is the victim of the
fanaticism of those forces that are pursuing obscurantism."
Lastly, Papandreou said that "all we democratic socialists in Greece
and all over the world condemn the hideous assassination of Hrant Dink
and express the hope that the Turkish authorities will take every
necessary action to achieve the complete solving of the crime and the
sending of the perpetrators to Justice."
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