Hrant Dink’s Funeral To Take Place in Istanbul Today

Hrant Dink’s Funeral To Take Place in Istanbul Today

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.01.2007 13:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Hrant Dink’s funeral will be held in
Istanbul. For this purpose the police has strengthened the security
measures. Thousands were expected to take part in the funeral, marching
in silence along an eight-kilometer route from ‘Agos’ office to an
Armenian Orthodox Church. Dink’s family has asked mourners not to
chant slogans or to turn the funeral into protest. Only one banner,
reading "We are all Hrants, we are all Armenians," would be allowed.
An ethnic Armenian Hrant Dink was gunned down Friday January 19 near
the editorial office of his ‘Agos’ weekly. The Police has already
detained one suspect, 17-year-old Ogun Samast, who has confessed to
the murder. Also Yasin Hayal has been arrested who has confessed to
instigation and organization of the assassination.