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ISTANBUL - Up to 100,000 people filed silently through Istanbul yesterday behind the coffin of 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 last week.
White doves were released into the air as sombre music played. Much of downtown Istanbul, a sprawling city of 12 million set on the Bosphorus waterway, was closed to traffic.
A 17-year-old youth, Ogun Samast, has confessed to killing Dink for "insulting" Turks.
A nationalist militant friend of Samast has admitted inciting Samast to kill Dink, who had worked for reconciliation between Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks.
- REUTERS
