Facts: - death place: istanbul , turkey - credits: founder and editor-in-chief of '' agos '' - years active: ? -- 2007 - death date: 19 january 2007 - spouse: rakel yagbasan -lrb- m. 1976 -rrb- - children: delal , arat , sera - birth date: 15 september 1954 - name: hrant dink - ethnicity: armenian - nationality: turkish - image: hrant dink.jpg - birth place: malatya , turkey - religion: armenian apostolic - occupation: newspaper editor , columnist and journalist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hrant dink .
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hrant dink -lrb- western , -rrb- -lrb- september 15 , 1954 -- january 19 , 2007 -rrb- was a turkish-armenian editor , journalist and columnist .as editor-in-chief of the bilingual turkish-armenian newspaper '' agos '' , dink was a prominent member of the armenian minority in turkey .dink was best known for advocating turkish-armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in turkey ; he was often critical of both turkey 's denial of the armenian genocide , and of the armenian diaspora 's campaign for its international recognition .dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating turkishness , while receiving numerous death threats from turkish nationalists .dink was assassinated in istanbul in january 2007 by ogun samast , a 17-year-old turkish nationalist .this was shortly after the premiere of the genocide documentary '' screamers '' , in which he is interviewed about turkish denial of the armenian genocide of 1915 and the case against him under article 301 .while samast has since been taken into custody , photographs of the assassin flanked by smiling turkish police and gendarmerie , posing with the killer side by side in front of the turkish flag , surfaced .the photos sparked a scandal in turkey , prompting a spate of investigations and the removal from office of those involved .at his funeral , two hundred thousand mourners marched in protest of the assassination , chanting , '' we are all armenians '' and '' we are all hrant dink '' .criticism of article 301 became increasingly vocal after his death , leading to parliamentary proposals for repeal .the 2007 -- 2008 academic year at the college of europe was named in his honour .