List of assasinated Turks
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The following is an incomplete 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, who were murdered by members of Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organizations with an agenda of changing the regime.
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[edit] Abdi İpekçi
Abdi İpekçi was editor of the major national newspaper Milliyet. On February 1, 1979, he was murdered by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a member of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves who would later try to assassinate the Pope.
- 1979: 1 February. Killed, shot as he drove home from work.
- Brief biography
[edit] Uğur Mumcu
Investigative journalist.
- 1993: 24 January. Killed by a car bomb.
- Public outrage over Mumcu's murder unabated four years later; Foundation carries on Ugur Mumcu's work
[edit] Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Academic, writer.
- 1999: 21 October. Killed in Ankara by a bomb which had been placed on the windshield of his car
- A tragic loss for the nation
- Prominent secularist academic and writer slain in Ankara Selcan Hocaoglu, Associated Press, 23rd Oct, 1999
[edit] Bahriye Üçok
Pro-secular theologist, woman professor
- 1990: 6 October. Killed by a letter bomb.
- Turkish Prime Minister's remarks
- Iran accused of aiding Islamist violence in Turkey
[edit] 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.
- 2000: (January?) shot in the back of the head in front of his house in early morning
- Suspects describe murders
- February 2005: Academic, journalist, writer, Professor Muammer Aksoy remembered on the 15th anniversary of his death
[edit] Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin
Council of State member judge, murdered in 17 May 2006.
