ISTANBUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A Turkish-Armenian editor, who was convicted last year for insulting Turkey's identity, was shot dead outside his newspaper in Istanbul on Friday, a colleague and Turkish television said.

No further details were immediately available.

Hrant Dink had been tried under Turkey's criticised freedom of expression laws, for controversial comments about an alleged Armenian genocide during World War One, which Ankara and many Turks deny occurred.

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