YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21, ARMENPRESS.  The Constitutional Court of Turkey examined the lawsuit of the victim of Turkish nationalism, Armenian editor-in-chief of “Agos” newspaper of Istanbul  Hrant Dink's family. Considering the presented information and documents inadequate, the Constitutional Court made a decision on demanding additional information from the corresponding bodies.

Armenpress reports citing the Turkish Mass Media that the forensic lawsuit introduced by Dink’s family requires to expose the former Chief of the police in Trabzon Ramazan Akyürek to responsibility who was aware of the planned assassination of Hrant Dink and other high ranking policemen.

Hrant Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was assassinated in Istanbul in January 19 2007, by Ogün Samast, a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly after the premiere of the genocide documentary Screamers, in which he is interviewed about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the case against him under Article 301. While Samast has since been taken into custody, photographs of the assassin flanked by smiling Turkish police and gendarmerie, posing with the killer side by side in front of the Turkish flag, have since surfaced. The photos created a scandal in Turkey, prompting a spate of investigations and the removal from office of those involved.

At his funeral, two hundred thousand mourners marched in protest of the assassination, chanting "We are all Armenians" and "We are all Hrant Dink". Criticism of Article 301 became increasingly vocal after his death, leading to parliamentary proposals for repeal. The 2007–2008 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honor.