Now That's A Funeral

Some 50,000 people filed silently through Istanbul on Tuesday behind the coffin of slain Turkish Armenian editor Hrant Dink, whose killing has stirred debate about influence of hardline nationalism in the country.

Hrant Dink was shot three times in broad daylight last Friday outside the Agos newspaper.

Dink, like dozens of other intellectuals, had been prosecuted for his views on the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 -- a very sensitive issue in Turkey.

Ogun Samast, 17, has confessed to killing Dink for "insulting" Turks. A nationalist militant friend of Samast has admitting to police that he incited Samast to kill Dink.

The killing has sparked concerns about Turkey's attitude to its minorities, not least among the diaspora which is especially influential in France and the United States.

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