Yasin Hayal

Yasin Hayal is a Turkish ultra-nationalist who served a ten-month prison term for the 2004 bomb attack on a McDonald's restaurant in the city of Trabzon, Turkey, and is reported to have admitted to inciting Ogün Samast to assassinate Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on January 19, 2007, by giving him the idea and supplying him with a weapon and money.cite news |title=A 'Trabzon Legend' gave the orders to kill Hrant Dink |url= http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/5817478.asp?gid=74 |work= Hürriyet |date= 2007-01-22 |accessdate= 2007-01-22] Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper "Agos", was killed on January 19, 2007 in front of the Agos office in Istanbul by gun shots, fired from behind in broad daylight.

Yasin Hayal is a former member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Great Union Party. Although he had bombed a McDonald's in Trabzon, he was officially expelled due to his "unrespectable private life". The party authorities financed Hayal's court expenses in Dink's trial.Fact|date=August 2008

In August 2008, his brother, Osman Hayal, was taken into custody for incitement. [cite news|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/Default.aspx?aType=Detay&ArticleID=894652&Date=21.08.2008&CategoryID=77
accessdate=2008-08-20
title=Yasin Hayal'in ağabeyi gözaltında
work=Anadolu Agency
publisher=Radikal
date=2008-08-20
language=Turkish] Telephone records proved that he was in Istanbul on the day of the assassination, contrary to his claims. [cite web|url=http://bianet.org/english/kategori/english/109156/osman-hayal-instigators-brother-in-dinks-murder-is-in-custody
accessdate=2008-08-20
title=Osman Hayal, Instigator’s Brother In Dink’s Murder, Is In Custody
date=2008-08-20
work=Bianet
author=EÖ/TB]

Yasin will be retried on September 23 2008 for the McDonalds incident. [cite news|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/Default.aspx?aType=Detay&ArticleID=898017&Date=10.09.2008&CategoryID=77
accessdate=2008-09-10
title=Yasin Hayal yeniden yargılanacak
section=Türkiye
date=2008-09-10
first=Bahadır
last=Öktem
work=Doğan News Agency
publisher=Radikal
language=Turkish] [cite news|url=http://bianet.org/english/kategori/english/109665/instigator-of-dinks-murder-to-be-retried-for-previous-crime
accessdate=2008-09-11
title=Instigator Of Dink’s Murder To Be Retried For Previous Crime
work=Bianet
date=2008-09-11
author=EÖ/EÜ/TB]

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