Yasin Hayal

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Yasin Hayal is a Turkish ultra-nationalist person 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.^[1] His father is Bahattin Hayal.

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 party Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP). Although he had bombed a McDonald's in Trabzon, he was officially expelled due to his "unrespectable private life". In Dink's trial, BBP authorities financed Hayal's court expenses.