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Mon 01 Jan 2007Youth admits killing of journalistTurkey:A teenager has confessed to the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, after his aunt and father saw pictures of him on television and contacted the police.Ogun Samast, who is 16 or 17- years-old, was caught on Saturday night on a coach in the Black Sea city of Samsun, 32 hours after he shot Mr Dink outside the offices of his newspaper, Agos, in central Istanbul.