A new park after Istanbul Armenian journalist Hrant Dink will open in Turkish city of Akdeniz.

“We are proud of opening a park named after famous Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, symbolizing peace and freedom. We will make efforts to convey Dink’s ideas to future generations,” Mayor of Akdeniz Fazil Turk said.

The opening ceremony of the park is scheduled for May 7, IHA agency reports.

Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, was assassinated in Istanbul in January 2007, by a Turkish nationalist.