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	Turkish military attaché in ]		Turkish military attaché in ]
	* ], ]: Assassinated in his car while driving ], Canada by the ].		* ], ]: Assassinated in his car while driving ], Canada by the ].

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	Professor of law at ], Faculty of ]; author of books on ]; elected head of the Ankara Bar Association 1969, columnist of the newspaper '']''.		Professor of law at ], Faculty of ]; author of books on ]; elected head of the Ankara Bar Association 1969, columnist of the newspaper '']''.
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			* ], ]: Gunned down in his office in Sabancı Towers, ], İstanbul, by assassins hired by the leftist armed group ]. The general manager of ToyotaSA and a secretary was also killed. They had been given access to the building by ], a female member of DHKP-C, who was an employee at that time.

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The following is an incomplete, chronological list of Turkish people murdered by assassins mainly on political and religious grounds. Many of these were intellectuals proponent of laicism and the strict separation of church and state, as it is defined on the Constitution of Turkey.

Mehmet Baydar and Bahadır Demir

Mehmet Baydar was Turkey's consul general in Los Angeles, and Bahadır Demir his deputy, in 1973.

27 January, 1973: Shot down by Gourgen Yanikian in a Santa Barbara hotel who had invited them there on the pretext of a donating a painting to the Turkish government. Yanikian, sentenced to life imprisonment, was amnestied in 1984 and died shortly afterwards. The event is considered to be the first in a decade-long chain of organized attacks against Turkish diplomats by Armenian terrorists.

Abdi İpekçi

Editor of the major national newspaper Milliyet.

1 February, 1979: Killed in his car in the street, where he lived, by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a member of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, who would later try to assassinate the Pope.

Cavit Orhan Tütengil

Professor of Sociology at Istanbul University, columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.

7 December, 1979: Shot dead at a city bus stop in Istanbul.

Ümit Kaftancıoğlu

TV producer, writer and columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
11 April, 1980: Gunned down in front of his home in Istanbul as he was about to get on his car.

Nihat Erim

Prime Minister of Turkey in 1971-1972, for almost 14 months.
19 July, 1980: Shot to death by two gunmen in İstanbul. Radical leftist Turkish militant group Dev Sol (Revolutionary Left) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Atilla Altıkat

Turkish military attaché in Canada

23 August, 1982: Assassinated in his car while driving Ottawa, Canada by the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide.

Muammer Aksoy

Professor of law at Ankara University, Faculty of Political science; author of books on Kemalism; elected head of the Ankara Bar Association 1969, columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.

31 January, 1990: Shot in the backhead in front of his house.

Bahriye Üçok

Female academic, pro-secular theologist, columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.

6 October, 1990: Killed by a parcel bomb.

Uğur Mumcu

Research journalist, columnist of the major newspaper Cumhuriyet.

24 January, 1993: Killed in front of his home in Ankara by a bomb installed in his car.

Özdemir Sabancı

Businessman and a member of the Sabancı family in the second generation.

9 January, 1996: Gunned down in his office in Sabancı Towers, Levent, İstanbul, by assassins hired by the leftist armed group DHKP-C. The general manager of ToyotaSA and a secretary was also killed. They had been given access to the building by Fehriye Erdal, a female member of DHKP-C, who was an employee at that time.