Ogun Samast, the assassin of Armenian-Turkish journalist, Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink, said that he is “not guilty, but that the guilty ones are those whose newspaper headlines stated that Dink was a traitor.”

The hitman’s remarks came in a letter he submitted to an Istanbul juvenile court where he is standing trial. “I am not guilty. The ones who are guilty are the newspaper headlines that portrayed Hrant Dink as a traitor. I got rid of the trash in my eye. Now let the ones who prepared those headlines think. Where are the ones who brought me to this point? I did not know about Agos. My veins were filled with ignorance then. I learned about Dink from newspaper headlines. And I sacrificed myself. … I am afraid of Yasin Hayal,” the letter read, Today’s Zaman reported.