List of assassinated people from Turkey

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The following is an incomplete, chronological list of people from Turkey murdered by assassins mainly on political and religious grounds. Many of these were intellectuals proponent of laicism and the strict separation of religion and state, as it is defined on the Constitution of Turkey and also many diplomats who were the victims of terrorist attacts all around the world.

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.

İsmail Erez

24 October, 1975 Turkey’s Paris Ambassador İsmail Erez and his driver Talip Yener were murdered in the vicinity of the Embassy by car bomb.

Bedrettin Cömert

Art historian, scholar, literary critic and translator. He was an academician in Hacettepe University.

11 March 1978: Shot dead in his car with his wife heavily wounded by Rıfat Yıldırım, Üzeyir Bayraklı and by another man nicknamed "Ahmet" who were ultra-nationalists and directly founded by the Turkish state. Ankara 5. Tribunal Correctionnel took the decision that Abdullah Çatlı was the responsible. But nobody was punished as a result.

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.

Kemal Türkler

Socialist trade union leader and left-wing politician.

July 22, 1980: Murdered in front of his home by ultra-right militants.

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.

Zübeyir Akkoç

Union member of Kurdish origin.

13 January 1993: This murder led to the European Court of Human Rights case Akkoç v. Turkey (2000).

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.

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

Academic, writer. politician, former Minister of Culture and columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.

21 October, 1999: Killed in Ankara by a bomb placed on the windshield of his car.

Üzeyir Garih

Jewish Turkish businessman. One of the founders of Alarko holding.

25 August, 2001: Murdered in Istanbul at the Eyüp Cemetery.

Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin

Council of State member judge

17 May, 2006: Murdered during a session in the high court in Ankara.

Hrant Dink

Armenian-Turkish journalist and editor-in-chief of the weekly Armenian and Turkish language newspaper Agos in Istanbul.

19 January, 2007: Shot dead in front of his newspaper's office.

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