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Boko Haram militants killed 32 people and kidnapped scores of others in an attack on the village of Gumsuri in the restive northeast, two local officials and a witness said Dec. 18.
      

Ahmet İlhan Güler, who was head of the Istanbul police's intelligence unit at the time of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink's murder, has accused former Trabzon police intelligence head Ramazan Akyürek of "hiding" information about the attack.

Ogün Samast, the triggerman who shot Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink dead almost eight years ago, has claimed that two former police chiefs are responsible for Dink’s murder.

Samast, who had sent a letter to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation of Dink’s murder saying he wanted to “speak up” on Nov. 17, testified on Dec. 5 as a “witness.”

The list of suspects in the murder case of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist killed in 2007 in Istanbul, has been broadened, with the court listening to more high-ranking officials amid a move to merge the case of the convicted shooter with that of the alleged instigators.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan vowed to hunt down those behind "heinous" attacks that killed at least 120 at the mosque of an Islamic leader who issued a call to arms against Boko Haram.
      

At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, officials and witnesses said on Nov. 20, in the latest violence to hit the restive region.
      

Civil servants and institutions allegedly implicated in the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink should be investigated, the Constitutional Court stated in its detailed ruling on the case on Nov. 12.

The top Turkish court said the case was not probed efficiently and the victim’s rights were violated, in a ruling issued last July.

The trial into the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has taken a significant turn after the court in Istanbul overseeing the case announced that it will focus on the “criminal organization” allegations against suspects, a move that lawyers representing the victim’s family had demanded since the start of the retrial.