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Former police chiefs sentenced to life for covering up Hrant Dink murder

A TURKISH court sentenced two former police chiefs to life imprisonment today for their roles in covering up the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. 

But Mr Dink’s family and lawyers insisted that the drawn-out trial had failed to shed adequate light on the killing and said they would appeal.

The editor of the bilingual Agos newspaper was shot dead in broad daylight outside his office in Istanbul in January 2007. 

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