"Editor's Death Spotlights Turkish Nationalism
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007 By PELIN TURGUT/ISTANBUL
The murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink has put Turkish nationalism in the spotlight. The suspect, 17-year-old Ogun Samast, was quoted by newspapers as telling police he shot Dink because the journalist insulted the Turkish nation. Local papers are reporting that Samast was allegedly linked to a small ultranationalist group in his hometown, Trabzon, on the Black Sea Coast. 'Those who created nationalist sentiment in Turkey have fed such a monster that there are many youngsters on the streets who do not find the ... state nationalist enough and are ready to take the law into their own hands,' wrote Ismet Berkan in his daily column in Radikal, one of Turkey's main dailies."
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