"Seventeen or 27, whoever he was, the murderer was once a baby," she said.
"Unless we can question the darkness that turned this baby into a murderer, we cannot achieve anything."
In a religious service attended by Armenians and Turks -- including Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin and Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu -- Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II called for expanded freedoms of speech and along with more dialogue between Turks and Armenians.
"It is mystical that his funeral turned into an occasion where Armenian and Turkish officials gathered together. He would have been happy to see this turn into real dialogue," Mesrob said, weeping during part of his eulogy.
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