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Turkey: Teenager confesses to journalist's killing
Jan. 22, 2007 2:27
Turkey: Teenager confesses to journalist's killing
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISTANBUL, Turkey


A Turkish teenager has confessed to the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist, a chief prosecutor said, two days after the daylight shooting in the capital stunned the nation. Nine other suspects were reported detained.

The slaying of Hrant Dink outside his newspaper's office has drawn attention to the precarious state of freedom of expression in a country that is vying for European Union membership.

Most Turks have assumed that the 52-year-old Dink, editor of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, was targeted because of his public statements calling the killing of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century genocide.

Nationalists consider such statements an insult to Turkey's honor and a threat to its unity, and Dink had been showered with insults and threats.

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