YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. Chief prosecutor of Supreme Court of Appeals asks for annulment of the verdict of ethnic Armenian Hrant Dink’s murder case, who was the Editor-in-Chief of Istanbul-based "Agos" daily. This decision is based upon the fact that “the crime was an organized assassination". As reports "Armenpress", "Anadolu" News Agency stated this. In the prosecutor’s announcement it is stated that Hrant Dink's murder was not "an assassination of an ordinary man".

The aforesaid announcement stated: "The murder was not just an ordinary assassination. The act had the intention to destroy the unity of the Turkish state and create chaos in the society. Hrant Dink's murder was an organized assassination."

Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of "Agos" daily editorial office in Istanbul, on January 19, 2007. His killer Ogun Samast, then 17-year old, was sentenced to 22 years and 6 months imprisonment in July, 2011.