SLIDESHOW: Slain journalist's death commemorated

By Sait Serkan Gurbuz Posted Feb 15 2008

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The first anniversary of the murder of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was commemorated throughout Turkey with rallies on Jan. 19. Dink was a prominent voice in Turkey’s Armenian community and had been critical of the country’s denial of the Armenian “genocide” of the early 20th century. He was gunned down by a 17-year-old Turkish ultranationalist last year in Istanbul in front of the weekly Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, where he worked as editor. Nearly 100,000 people marched behind Dink’s coffin, chanting “We are all Armenian. We are all Hrant Dink” in a show of solidarity. The trial of his alleged murderers remains ongoing.

Sait Serkan Gurbuz

Gurbuz is a graduate photojournalism student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and a native of Turkey. He photographed the event in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, where hundreds of participants left red carnations at Birgun newspaper where Dink had once worked.

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