In Istanbul, tens of thousands took to the street on Thursday to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder Hrant Dink and to protest a Tuesday court ruling that there was no conspiracy, provoking national and international criticism.  

"We want justice for Hrant", “ "We all are Armenians”,   the marchers shouted as they wound their way through the center of Istanbul to the offices of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, which Dink once edited.

It was the biggest demonstration for democracy and human rights that Turkey has seen in years.

On Tuesday, a court convicted a man for instigating the murder, but acquitted 19 people on state conspiracy charges

The protest marked the day five years ago when Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian writer and newspaper editor, was gunned down in broad daylight by a 17-year-old ultranationalist.

Toward the end of the march, a group of young protesters threw stones at a couple of shop windows and ATM machines and skirmished with the police. The demonstration was otherwise peaceful.

The last time such a large human-rights demonstration took place in Turkey was on the day of Hrant Dink's funeral, when an estimated 100,000 walked from the murder scene to the cemetery where he was buried.