ANKARA - "No bloody provocation will prevent Turkey from advancing on its path towards freedom and prosperity," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Erdogan attended a ceremony to decorate Guenter Verheugen, Vice President of the European Commission, with Turkish Industrialists' & Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) Foreign Policy Award in Ankara.
In regard to killing of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, Erdogan said that everyone was shocked by the assassination.
"A bullet was fired to free thought and our democratic life with the bloody attack against Dink. Two ministers and all security units are continuing their investigation," Erdogan noted.
"I believe that our nation will give the best response to this traitorous homicide in unity," he stressed.
He added that they would keep fulfilling democratic reforms.