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    ARMENIAN AGOS NEWSPAPER'S WEBSITE HACKED

    BIA Net
    http://www.bianet.org/english/minorities/12001 3-armenian-agos-newspapers-website-hacked
    Feb 12 2010
    Turkey

    A hacker forced access to the website of Armenian Agos newspaper and
    posted a photograph of Hrant Dink murderer suspect Ogun Samast on the
    main page. The hacker published threats and insults towards people
    who supported assassinated journalist Dink.

    Bawer Cakır - Erol Onderoglu Istanbul - BIA News Center12 February
    2010, Friday A computer hacker posted a text on the website of weekly
    Armenian Agos newspaper which praised Ogun Samast, prime suspect in
    the murder case Agos founder Hrant Dink.

    In the writing put on the main page the hacker(s) said that the murder
    "was done on behalf of the Turkish flag and the Turkish Republic".

    Moreover, a photograph of suspect Samast was posted. The actual main
    page and pages containing news articles of Agos cannot be accessed
    right now.

    Besides plenty of spelling mistakes, the text is full of insults and
    threats against people who are supporting the newspaper and the Dink
    case. At the bottom of the writing it concludes: "The game is over".

    Turkish-Armenian Agos editor-in-chief Hrant Dink was killed in front
    of the newspaper's office in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 after he had
    been targeted for quite a while on the grounds of his articles and
    opinions. Several cases had been filed against rights defender Dink.
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