Dink, the high-profile editor of newspaper Agos, was shot
three times outside its offices in Istanbul, the paper said.
Dink was one of the writers who had been prosecuted under
Turkey’s strict laws against "insulting Turkishness".
He was given a six-month suspended sentence in October 2005
after writing about the Armenian "genocide" of 1915.
Turkey’s NTV television said police were searching for a
teenager wearing a white hat and a denim jacket in connection with the murder.
The channel showed pictures of a white sheet covering the
journalist’s body in front of the newspaper building’s entrance.
Dink, 53, had received threats from nationalists who viewed
him as a traitor, the Associated Press news agency reported.
He was a public figure in Turkey – one of its most prominent
Armenian voices.
He once gave an interview with the Associated Press in which
he cried while describing the hatred some Turks had for him, saying he could not
stay in a country where he was unwanted.
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in 1915, in what many
Armenians say was a systematic massacre at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
Turkey denies any genocide, saying the deaths were a part of
World War I.
Turkey and neighbouring Armenia still have no official
relations.
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