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Eight suspects, including police and journalists, were arrested on March 28 on charges related to the murder of prominent Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.       
Dink, the founder of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish weekly newspaper Agos, was shot dead in an Istanbul street on Jan. 19, 2007.

Six suspects, including a journalist, were detained on March 21 as part of an ongoing investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The current Greek population in Turkey is estimated at fewer than 2,000.  But this population decline was not due to natural causes; the Greek community has become nearly extinct due to many state-sponsored attacks and pressure.

The largest attacks took place during the last years of the Ottoman Empire with pogroms and discrimination continuing until the present day.

The work of Armenian-origin Turkish journalistHrant Dink was as important as his death was tragic. As editor of the weekly newspaper Agos, Dink helped break new ground in the late 1990s and early 2000s before he was shot dead outside the Agos office by a young ultranationalist 10 years ago on Jan. 19.

Thousands flocked onto the streets of Şişli on Jan. 19 to commemorate Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink on the 10th anniversary of his assassination amid little progress in shining a light on the alleged network behind the decade-old crime.

One of the judges who is trying 35 suspects for the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalistHrant Dink in 2007 was detained on Dec. 2 on accusations that he is tied to the Gülenist organization. 

Osman Gülbel, a former deputy head of the Police Intelligence Department charged in the case on the killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has told an Istanbul court that he "did what he was supposed to do" by sending a document containing information that Dink was to be targeted to the necessary offices. 

Crowds of people have gathered to commemorate Armenian-origin journalist and late Agos editor-in-chief Hrank Dink, who was assassinated outside the newspaper’s office nine years ago today

No solid legal steps have been taken in the nine years since Armenian-origin journalistHrant Dink was assassinated outside his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007, as thousands of people gathered to commemorate the late Agos editor-in-chief on the anniversary of his death. 

The triggerman who shot dead Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink almost nine years ago has appealed to present his testimony as part of the "criminal organization" leg of the case into the murder. The assassin Ogün Samast has also asked to be transferred to a prison in Istanbul near to where the case is being held.