Turkish editor's murder: suspect arrested after tip-off
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Your support makes all the difference.Police have detained a man suspected of killing the journalist Hrant Dink in Turkey. The suspect was caught on a bus in the Black Sea city of Samsun after a tip-off from his father. Earlier, police had identified the suspect as Ogun Samas and distributed his picture to the press.
Editor of the Turkish-Armenian paper Agos, Dink had been in court several times over his articles and had said he feared he would be attacked. He was shot and killed athis office in Istanbul on Friday.
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