Dink je naljutio angered tuske nacionaliste kad je ustvrdio da ubijanje nekih 1,5 miliona Armenaca u zadnjim danima Osmanske carevine predstavlja genocid, koju karakterizaciju Ankara čvrsto poriče.
Dink angered Turkish nationalists by maintaining that the killings of some 1.5 million Armenians in the waning days of the Ottoman empire amounted to genocide, a characterisation that Ankara firmly denies.