Shot Fired At Ceremony For Slain Turkish-Armenian Journalist

An unidentified gunman fired a shot in the air outside an Armenian church in Istanbul Sunday shortly after a ceremony for the slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, a church official said. The gunman and another person fled on foot from the courtyard of the church in Kumkapi district where a ceremony had been held for Dink, the official told journalists on condition of anonymity. "We chased them down the street but were unable to catch them," he said. The ceremony at the church in the European side of Istanbul was to mark the 40th day since Dink, the 52-year-old ethnic Armenian editor of the bilingual Agos weekly, was shot dead outside his office. It was led by Patriarch Mesrob II, the spiritual leader of Turkey's 80,000 Armenians, and attended by Dink's family and leading intellectuals.