(2002 est. pop. 377,000). Samsun is the capital of Turkey's Samsun Province and is located on the Black Sea coast between the Kizel Irmak and Yesil Irmak Rivers. Originally called Amisus, it was ruled by the Greeks in the seventh century BCE and...

Samsun is a city in northern Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea, with a population of 439,000 as of 2006. It is the capital city of Samsun Province and an important port. Samsun was founded as the colony Amisos (alternative spelling Amisus) by...

A teenage boy has confessed to fatally shooting an ethnic Armenian journalist outside his newspaper office in a brazen daytime attack, a prosecutor said Sunday.Ogun Samast, who is either 16 or 17 years old, was caught in the Black Sea city of Samsun late Saturday,...

A teenage boy has confessed to fatally shooting an ethnic Armenian journalist outside his newspaper office in a brazen daytime attack, a prosecutor said Sunday.Ogun Samast, who is either 16 or 17 years old, was caught in the Black Sea city of Samsun late Saturday,...

Police on Saturday detained a teenager suspected of slaying an ethnic Armenian journalist, acting on a tip from the boy's father after his picture was broadcast on Turkish television, senior officials said. The boy later confessed to the killing, a prosecutor said.Ogun Samast, who is...

The teenage boy suspected of fatally shooting an ethnic Armenian journalist confessed during initial questioning that he killed the man, a local prosecutor told a state-run news agency on Sunday.Ahmet Cokcinar _ a prosecutor in the city of Samsun, where the boy was caught _...