Less than two days after the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, a teenager has confessed to the crime, Turkish media reported Sunday according to Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa. Police arrested the 17-year-old, named Ogun S, late Saturday on a bus in Samsun on the Black Sea coast as he was attempting to return to his hometown of Trabzon, also on the Black Sea, only hours after he had been identified with the help of his father. The youth confessed to the crime during preliminary questioning, Samsun Prosecutor Ahmet Gokcinar was quoted by Turkish media as saying. "I don't regret it," Ogun S is believed to have said. He said he had been "influenced by internet sites" opposed to Dink. Dink, 52, was shot dead on Friday outside the offices of the Agos newspaper he published, and for which he had written controversial articles on Turkish-Armenian relations that angered nationalists and saw him sentenced to six months probation last year under Turkey's controversial law of "insulting Turkishness." He suffered three shots to the head and neck. Ogun S was caught with the suspected murder weapon just 32 hours after the fatal shots were fired. He was flown from Samsun to Istanbul.
