In pictures: Dink funeral

Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday to escort the coffin of murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink.

The newspaper editor, 52, was gunned down in the Turkish city on Friday, just outside his office.

His colleagues paid their respects as the funeral cortege passed in front of the newspaper's offices.

Hrant Dink's widow (centre) and daughters, Baydar (left) and Sera (right) led the mourning at the site of the shooting.

Silent crowds carried placards reading "We are all Armenians". They paused and applauded as they passed the place where Hrant Dink was shot.

Many roads were shut to allow the cortege to reach an Armenian Orthodox Church five miles (8km) across the city.

Dink wrote controversial articles about the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I. He was to be buried at Istanbul's Armenian cemetery.

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