Turkey - Supporters of editor's alleged killer hack into newspaper's website

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Hackers broke into the website of the Turkish and Armenian-language newspaper Agos today and succeeded in posting a photo of Ogün Samast – the youth who is on trial for the January 2007 murder of the newspaper's founder, Hrant Dink – together with a Turkish flag background and around 10 lines of ultra-nationalistic comments. Headlined “Our good morning to Ogün Samast,” the content left by the hackers continued to be visible for several minutes on the site, which is now inaccessible. The (...)

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