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 ogromni portret tog poreklom jermenskog novinara pokrivao deo zgrade u kojoj je radio, a na ulici gorele sveće, ožalošćeni su održali minut ćutanja tačno u vreme kada je na njega pucao Ogun Samast, koji je opisan kao tvrdokorni nacionalista iz crnomorskog grada Trabzona.