Memorial rally in Istanbul commemorating the death of Hrant Dink. (Source: Public Radio of Armenia)
ISTANBUL (Combined Sources) — Thousands of people gathered today to commemorate the late Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink at the site in Istanbul where he was gunned down nine years ago.
The large crowd filed past the military museum in the Sisli district at around 1:30 p.m. to walk toward the Agos office building to read a statement at the site where Dink was shot dead by triggerman Ogun Samast.
Accompanied by water cannons and armored vehicles, police took intense security measures along the route of the march as well as around the office of weekly Agos in Sisli’s Osmanbey neighborhood.
“We are all Hrant Dink,â€
