Among the finest of these was Hrant Dink, an ethnic Armenian editor who was murdered in 2007.

ECONOMIST: Armenians and Turks

Mr Sener dug into alleged police complicity in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish newspaper publisher.

ECONOMIST: Repression in Turkey

Mr Sener is best known for a book that documents the complicity of the police in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin.

ECONOMIST: Press freedom in Turkey

He believes the case is connected to the recent arrests of generals, academics and journalists linked to a string of murders, including that of an ethnic-Armenian editor, Hrant Dink.

ECONOMIST: A state prosecutor wants to ban the ruling party

After the Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink was gunned down on an Istanbul street in 2007, Birand told me he was now living with protection from a body guard.

CNN: Respected Turkish journalist dies

One of the loudest critics of the French law, which first came before parliament in 2006, was Hrant Dink, an Armenian newspaper owner who was murdered in Istanbul by an ultranationalist youth in 2007.

ECONOMIST: Turkey, France and Armenia

That is why Hrant Dink was murdered.

BBC: Violent nationalism blights Turkey

Police said Hrant Dink was shot twice.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Armenian anger at Turkish murder