Musa Anter

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Musa Anter
Born 1920
Nusaybin, Ottoman Empire
Died September 20, 1992
Diyarbakır, Turkey
Occupation Writer, political activist

Musa Anter (1920, Nusaybin – September 20, 1992, Diyarbakır), also known as "Ape Musa" (Kurdish: Apê Musa, literally "Uncle Musa"), was a Kurdish-Turkish dissident writer and activist.[1] He was a Kurdish nationalist intellectual and was assassinated in September 1992.[2]

Biography

He was born in the Eskimağara (in Kurdish:Ziving) village (Nusaybin District of the Mardin Province). He completed his primary education in Mardin, and then studied at junior and senior high school in Adana. When he was a student, he had been to Syria during his summer holidays and got acquaintance with Kurdish nationalist intellectuals[3] such as Celadet and Kamuran Bedir Khan, Kadri and Ekrem Cemilpaşa, Dr. Nafiz, Nuri Zaza, Nuri Dersimi, Qedrîcan, Osman Sabri, Haco Agha and his son Hasan, Emînê Perîxanê's son Şikriye Emîn, Mala Elyê Unus, Teufo Ciziri and Cigerxwîn.[4]

Assassination

Anter was shot at a festival in 1992, in an incident in which Orhan Miroğlu was seriously injured. Abdülkadir Aygan, who was PKK militant and surrendered in 1985,[5] then recruited as part of the first staff of JİTEM (the Turkish Gendarmerie's Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Service),[5] said he had been part of a JİTEM unit, along with a "Hamit" from Şırnak, which had assassinated Musa Anter.[6]

Other sources claim that the perpetrators were PKK defectors Murat Ipek, on orders from Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil"),[7]or Yeşil himself.[8]

Turkey was fined related to his murder in 2006 by the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), who sentenced Turkey to a fine of 28,500 euros.[9]

A Diyarbakır court in 2013 charged four individuals with Anter's murder, including Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil") and Abdülkadir Aygan.[10]

References

  1. ↑ A. Hunsicker, The Fine Art of Executive Protection: Handbook for the Executive Protection Officer, Universal-Publishers, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58112-984-7, p. 67.
  2. ↑ David Romero, The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization, and Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-85041-4, p. 135.
  3. ↑ Ahmet B. Ercilasun, "Gaflet", Yeniçağ, July 21, 2010. (Turkish)
  4. ↑ Musa Anter, Hatıralarım, 2. Cilt, Doz Basım ve Yayıncılık, 1990, p. 123. (Turkish)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ümit Cizre, Democratic Oversight and Reform of the Security Sector in Turkey: 2005/2006 Status Report, LIT Verlag Münster, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03735-234-2, p. 244.
  6. ↑ Ünlü, Ferhat (2008-08-25). "Suikastların adresi hep JİTEM'e çıkıyor". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 2008-08-27. "Sonra da bildiğiniz gibi Şırnaklı Hamit infaz etti Anter'i." 
  7. ↑ "Susurluk". Ozgur Politika (in Turkish). 1997-02-11. Archived from the original on 1997-10-24. Retrieved 2008-12-13. 
  8. ↑ Duvakli, Melik (2009-01-03). "JİTEM behind Anter and Aydın murders, claims Kurdish group". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2009-01-03. "In a statement to the Diyarbakır Police Department in 1994, PKK informant Muhsin Gül said both Aydın and Anter were killed by Mahmut Yıldırım..." 
  9. ↑ Duvakli, Melik. JİTEM’s illegal actions cost Turkey a fortune, Today's Zaman, 27 August 2008.
  10. ↑ Today's Zaman, 9 October 2013, JİTEM list provided in Anter murder trial to be kept confidential

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