Tens of thousands mourn Turkish-Armenian editor
January 24th, 2007 by
As many as 100,000 people filed silently through Istanbul on Tuesday to pay their last respects to Turkish Armenian editor Hrant Dink, whose murder has stirred debate about the influence of hardline nationalism in Turkey.
From early morning, tearful mourners, many holding identical black-and-white signs reading “We are all Hrant Dink” and “We are all Armenians,” gathered outside the Agos newspaper office where Dink was shot three times in broad daylight last Friday.
White doves were released into the air as somber music played. Much of downtown Istanbul, a sprawling city of some 12 million set on the Bosphorus waterway, was closed to traffic. [Read More]
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