Hrant Dink’s murder was the culminating point of a persecution campaign that can be traced back to February 2004, when he published claims to the effect that Sabiha Gökçen, the adopted daughter of Atatürk and the first woman war pilot of the Turkish Republic, was of Armenian descent. Dink’s claim provoked a public statement from the Chief of Staff, the highest echelon of the Turkish army.
Eğer Türk milliyetçilerin'n Dink'den neftet ettikleri düşünülürse, bu Ermenistan ve Ermeni diasporasındakiler için de geçerli olacaktır.