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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.

Abdi İpekçi

Abdi İpekçi was editor of the major national newspaper Milliyet.

• February 1, 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.

Muammer Aksoy

Professor of Law School at Ankara University|law at Ankara University, faculty of political science; author of books on Kemalism; elected head of the Ankara Bar Association 1969.

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

Bahriye Üçok

Pro-secular theologist, female academic

• 6 October, 1990: Killed by a letter bomb.

Uğur Mumcu

Investigative journalist.

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

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

Academic, writer.

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

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 newspaper Agos in Istanbul.

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

See also

• Assasination
• List of assassinated people

References

1. Brief biography
2. Suspects describe murders
3. February 2005: Academic, journalist, writer, Professor Muammer Aksoy remembered on the 15th anniversary of his death
4. Turkish Prime Minister's remarks
5. Iran accused of aiding Islamist violence in Turkey
6. Public outrage over Mumcu's murder unabated four years later; Foundation carries on Ugur Mumcu's work
7. A tragic loss for the nation
8. Prominent secularist academic and writer slain in Ankara Selcan Hocaoglu, Associated Press, 23rd Oct, 1999
9. BBC News
10. Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul

• Assassinated Turkish people