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"Turks flock to editor’s funeral

By Vincent Boland in Ankara

Published: January:32 | Last updated: January:32

Tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday for the funeral of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor shot dead in the city on Friday in an apparently politically motivated murder.

They held up placards saying “We are all Armenians” and threw carnations at the cortege as Dink’s coffin was brought to the Armenian Church of the Virgin Mary for a funeral mass officiated by Mesrob II, the Armenian patriarch of Istanbul."

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