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We are all Hrant Dink

photo: ReutersEthnic-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has been shot dead in broad daylight outside his newspaper office in Istanbul. Turkish authorities have condemned the killing.

Respected editor and columnist, 52 year-old Dink had faced death threats and legal action for his views on the 1915-18 genocide of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. And yet he was an advocate of Armenian-Turkish dialogue and opposed prosecution of genocide deniers.

Some 5,000 people have gathered where he was killed on 19 January 2007, chanting: "We are all Armenians, we are all Hrant Dink."

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