Hrant Dink is being commemorated in Istanbul in front of his newspaper Agos on the 8th anniversary of his passing, Agos newspaper reported.

The crowd of thousands who gathered in Taksim are now about to arrive in front of Agos. As the vigil in front of Agos continues, Hrant’s friends are being greeted in front of the newspaper.

Slogans in front of Agos, ‘We are all Hrant, we are all Armenian’, ‘This trial won’t end before we say so’. A group carrying an image of Hrant Dink’s eyes.

As thousands of people have reached Harbiye, the end of the cortege is in Taksim. The crowd chants ‘Those who gave the order to kill must be tried’. 

The crowd has begun to gather in Taksim. People are coming together behind the banner proclaiming ‘Time to face Hrant! Time to face the Genocide!’ prepared by the Hrant’s Friends group for the 2015 commemoration.

Preparations continue in front of Agos. The People’s Democracy Party (HDP) is collecting signatures for the petition to change the name of the street in front of Agos to Hrant Dink Street.

Hrant Dink was the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, and he was killed on January 19, 2007 in front of the weekly’s office, by Ogun Samast. The ongoing trials into Dink’s murder, however, have not yet exposed the architects of this assassination.