국제앰네스티는 터키정부가 인권활동가 후란 딩크(Hrant Dink)의 생명을 보호하는데 실패했다고 판결을 내린 유럽인권재판소의 결정에 환영의 뜻을 표명했다.
지난 9월 14일 재판소는 터키정부가 후란 딩크의 살해를 예방하기 위한 충분한 정보를 가지고 있었음에도 불구하고 이를 막지못했으며 그의 죽음에 국가 요원들의 개입 여부에 대한 수사를 하지 않았다는 결론을 내렸다. 터키정부는 후란 딩크의 살해에 대하여 유가족에게 105,000 유로(한화 약 1억6천만원)를 배상할것을 명령받았다.
국제앰네스티 앤드류 가드너(Andrew Gardner) 터키 조사관은 “터키정부는 이제 처음으로 후란 딩크의 사망에 대한 모든 정황들을 조사해야하며 책임자들을 권력에 상관없이 법의 심판을 받도록 해야한다”라고 밝혔다.
아르메니아계 터키 시민인 후란 딩크는 2007년 1월 19일 살해되었다. 터키신문 더 아고스(The Agos) 의 편집원이며 유력일간지인 자만(Zaman)의 협력자였던 그는 이스탄불에 있는 더 아고스 사무실 외부에서 살해되었다.
국제앰네스티는 터키정부에 이 사건과 관련한 주정부 인사의 결합여부와 직무태만에 대하여 수사할것을 반복적으로 요구해왔다. 
EUROPEAN COURT RULES AGAINST TURKEY OVER JOURNALIST’S MURDER
Amnesty International has welcomed a European Court of Human Rights ruling that Turkey failed to protect the life of journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink, who was killed in Istanbul in 2007.
In Tuesday’s ruling, the Court found that the Turkish authorities had failed to act on information they received that could have prevented Dink’s murder and had failed to investigate the role of state officials in his death. Turkey was ordered to pay Dink’s family compensation of 105,000 euros (￡88,000).
“The Turkish authorities must now, for the first time, investigate all the circumstances around the death of Hrant Dink and bring those responsible to justice, whatever their position of power,” said Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International’s expert on Turkey.
The Court also found that Turkey had violated Hrant Dink’s right to freedom of expression in prosecuting and convicting him for “denigration of Turkishness” in 2005 and for failing to protect him from an ensuing hate campaign by ultra-nationalists.
Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian decent, was killed on 19 January 2007. The editor of theAgos newspaper and contributor to the influential daily Zaman was shot outside the Agos offices in Istanbul.
Amnesty International has repeatedly called on the Turkish authorities to investigate evidence of collusion and negligence by state officials in the case.
Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, met Hrant Dink’s family during a recent visit to Istanbul.
Dink was best known for his willingness to debate openly and critically issues of Armenian identity and official versions of history in Turkey relating to the massacres of Armenians in 1915. He was repeatedly prosecuted for expressing his opinions.
In 2005, he was given a six-month suspended prison sentence after he was accused of denigrating “Turkishness” in writings about the identity of Turkish citizens of Armenian origin.
The trial of 19 people accused of involvement in Hrant Dink’s murder continues.
However, criminal investigations of members against police and gendarmerie officers, who had knowledge of the planned murder but did not act to prevent it, have all but collapsed.
