Murder of Sevag Balıkçı, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish soldier of Armenian descent killed on the memorial day of the Armenian Genocide
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Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
About Murder of Sevag Balıkçı
- Sevag Sahin Balikçi (April 1, 1986 – April 24, 2011) was a Turkish soldier of Armenian descent who was shot to death during compulsory military service.
- The incident occurred on April 24, 2011, the remembrance day of the Armenian Genocide.
- The perpetrator Kivanç Agaoglu was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
- However, there have been several eye-witness accounts and testimonies that claim that the shooting was not accidental as the official reports suggest, but intentional.
- Other reports claim that the shooting was a hate crime towards Balikçi's Armenian identity.
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