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Revision as of 20:40, 20 January 2007 by Cretanforever (talk | contribs) (added Nihat Erim)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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
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.
Cavit Orhan Tütengil
Professor of Sociology at Istanbul University, columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
- December 7, 1979: Shot dead at a city bus stop in Istanbul.
Ümit Kaftancıoğlu
- TV producer, writer and columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
- April 11, 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.
- July 19, 1980: Shot to death by two gunmen in İstanbul. Radical leftist Turkish militant group Dev Sol (Revolutionary Left) claimed responsibility for the attack.
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.
- January 31, 1990: Shot in the backhead in front of his house in early morning.
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.
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.
Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin
Council of State member judge
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.
See also
References
- Brief biography
- Cavit Orhan Tütengil in Islamiyet Gerçekleri Template:Tr icon
- Ümit Kaftancıoğlu in Islamiyet Gerçekleri Template:Tr icon
- Suspects describe murders
- February 2005: Academic, journalist, writer, Professor Muammer Aksoy remembered on the 15th anniversary of his death
- Turkish Prime Minister's remarks
- Iran accused of aiding Islamist violence in Turkey
- Public outrage over Mumcu's murder unabated four years later; Foundation carries on Ugur Mumcu's work
- A tragic loss for the nation
- Prominent secularist academic and writer slain in Ankara Selcan Hocaoglu, Associated Press, 23rd Oct, 1999
- BBC News
- Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul