After Hrant Dink's assassination many people started to believe that Turkey may change its principles and start to show some respect towards European values at least by word of mouth. In fact, the leaders of the country did condemn the murder, though by word of mouth again, and moreover, it didn't take them long to catch the murderer, as if he was waiting round the corner to be caught. However most of the country doesn't consider Ogün Samast a criminal, but a national hero who acted in the name of Allah and killed "the nonbeliever".