Agos
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Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
weekly newspaper published in Istanbul
Istanbul
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, Turkey
Turkey
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. It was established on 5 April 1996. Today, it has a circulation of over 9,000. It has both Armenian
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
and Turkish
Turkish language
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pages as well as an on-line English edition. Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink or Հրանտ Դինք ) was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent editor, journalist and columnist....
was its chief editor from the newspaper's start until his assassination outside of the newspaper's offices in Istanbul in January 2007.
Hrant Dink's son Arat Dink
Arat Dink
Arat Dink is a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin and the executive editor of Agos, a bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul...
, who served as the executive editor of the weekly, has been named as a co-defendant in the cases brought against Hrant Dink for denigrating Turkishness
Article 301 (Turkish penal code)
Article 301 is a controversial article of the Turkish Penal Code making it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish ethnicity, or Turkish government institutions...
due to his managerial position at the weekly.
After Hrant Dink's assassination
Hrant Dink assassination
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul on January 19, 2007. Dink was a newspaper editor who had written and spoken about the Armenian genocide. He had been under prosecution by the Turkish government for violating Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code and denigrating...
, the editor-in-chief of the weekly became Etyen Mahçupyan
Etyen Mahçupyan
Etyen Mahçupyan is a Turkish-Armenian journalist and writer. From 2007 to 2010 he was the editor-in-chief of Agos, the Armenian community's weekly newspaper. He also contributes to the Turkish national dailies Taraf and Zaman....
; in 2010 he was succeeded in that position by Rober Koptaş. Arat Dink continued to serve as the executive editor. The current executive editor is Aris Nalcı.