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Ogün Samast, the convicted perpetrator of the 2007 assassination of Armenian-origin journalist Hrant Dink, has applied to the court to have his name changed, local media has reported.

A Turkish court has acquitted popular Turkish rapper Ezhel of charges of encouraging drug use.

Armenians who were leaving the Narlı Kapı Church in Constantinople on Sunday were stoned by a group of children who chanted “Death to you,” the artigerçek news website reported on Monday.

The head of the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board has asked for two key names to be removed from the report on the killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, one of the inspectors who prepared the report has said. 

Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the former head of Turkey's police intelligence branch, has given his testimony in the 31st hearing into the 2007 killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, saying the killing was "deliberately not prevented" and security authorities in Istanbul and Trabzon were responsible. 

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has completed its investigation into a former chief civil inspector who allegedly prevented the detection of public officials involved in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Members of the jury for the second "Istanbul Photo Awards" were announced on Jan. 19.

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.

Police officer Muhittin Zenit, who had been in contact with a key informant in murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has said he was prevented from giving testimony in the slaying by former police intelligence chiefs Ramazan Akyürek and Ali Fuat Y?lmazer.

A women's rights advocate from Saudi Arabia and an LGBTI rights group in Turkey have been given this year's International Hrant Dink Award - dedicated to the Armenian journalist murdered in 2007 - at a ceremony in Istanbul, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.