Dink je razljutio tvrdolinijaše time što je osporavao službeni turski stav da ubijanja oko 1,5 miliona Armenaca u zadnjim godinama Osmanske carevine ne predstavlja genocid.
Dink angered hardliners by challenging the official Turkish position that the killings of some 1.5 million Armenians in the last years of the Ottoman Empire did not constitute genocide.