With a huge portrait of the ethnic Armenian journalist covering part of the building where he worked and candles lit on the street, the mourners observed a minute of silence at the exact time he was shot by Ogun Samast, who is described as a hardline nationalist from the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
Dok je divovski portret tog podrijetlom armenskog novinara pokrivao dio zgrade u kojoj je radio, a na ulici gorjele svijeće, tugujući su održali minutu šutnje točno u vrijeme kada je na njega pucao Ogun Samast, koji je opisan kao tvrdokorni nacionalist iz crnomorskog grada Trabzona.