Under the watchful gaze of Turkish soldiers, men and women marched by the thousands along tumbledown streets, trailing behind an ambulance bearing the remains of a Kurdish militant ripped apart by mortar fire.
"Our fallen warriors will never die," the crowd chanted with the same mixture of grief, defiance and anger that has marked similar funerals across Turkey's Kurdish heartland in recent weeks.
More than 340 Kurdish fighters have been killed in Turkey since the start last month of a government offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, according to the state-run Anatolia news agency.