Ahment Türk, the Co-Chairman of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), a pro-kurdish party in Turkey, said that Kurds were part of the policies implemented in 1915 against the Armenians, Assyrians and Yezidies. "The Kurds have their share in that as well," he said. "Our grandparents persecuted these people. As descendands, we apologize to them." …

 In his interrogation, Erhan Tuncel, organizer of the murder of Hrant Dink and police informant, said he had provided a report to the police in Trabzon on Yasin Hayal and killing of Hrant Dink, not four but 17 times. The negligence involved in making Tuncel, a key name in Dink’s murder, an informant and in his use in this role is already clear. Essentially, the infractions and irregularities go back to the bombing of a McDonald’s in Trabzon in 2004. …