Yasin Hayal
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Yasin Hayal is a militant Turkish nationalist who served a ten-month prison term for the 2004 bomb attack against a McDonald's restaurant in the city of Trabzon, Turkey, and is reported to have admitted to inciting Ogün Samast to assassinate Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on January 19, 2007, by giving him the idea and supplying him with a weapon and money.[1]
Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, was killed on January 19, 2007 in front of the Agos office in Istanbul by gun shots, fired from behind in broad daylight.
Yasin Hayal is a former member of ultra-nationalist Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP) and expelled from this party because of "unrespectable private life" and not McDonald's bombing. In Dink trial, BBP authorities finance Hayal's court expenses.
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- ^ "A "Trabzon Legend" gave the orders to kill Hrant Dink", Hürriyet, 2007-01-22. Retrieved on January 22, 2007.
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