Thursday, January 25, 2007

globeandmail.com: Killing brings the dark side of Turkish town into the light

"Killing brings the dark side of Turkish town into the light

NICHOLAS BIRCH

Special to The Globe and Mail

TRABZON, TURKEY -- Ask Mehmet Akcelep the first thing he thought when he heard that the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink had been killed, and he answers without hesitation: 'I bet that's the work of a local man.'

Like the other inhabitants of Trabzon, the biggest city on Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast, Mr. Akcelep, a local councillor, has grown used to seeing his home town in the news for the wrong reasons."

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