Every single journalist listed below was killed due to their writings,
believes. It is agonising that this is not the whole list, a very minor
fragment of it. After a brief read, one may relate to fake-named Turkish Facebook
profiles and even to Disgruntled Young Penguins and V for Vendetta masks wearing
Gezi protestors.
İsmail Hayırsevener
(1958 – 2009)
Founder of the newspaper of ‘İlk Haber’
Became a target due to his writings on corruption
Killed by gunned down in broad daylight while he was
under police protection
Hrant Dink (1954 –
2007)
Ex editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian
newspaper Agos (Ակօս)
Gunned down simply because he was Armenian by a
Turkish nationalist
While his killer had been taken into custody,
photographs of the assassin flanked by smiling Turkish police
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
(1939 – 1999)
A journalist known for his secular attitude
A bomb package was left on his car, when he tried to
remove it, it got triggered
Allegedly killed by an illegal religious organization by
the name of Tawhid-Salaam Jerusalem Organization (tr: Tevhid-Selam Kudüs)
Uğur Mumcu (1942 –
1993)
An investigative journalist for the leading Kemalist
broadsheet
He was assassinated by a bomb placed in his car,
outside his home
Allegedly killed by an illegal religious organization by
the name of Tawhid-Salaam Jerusalem Organization (tr: Tevhid-Selam Kudüs)
Musa Anter (1918 – 1992)
A dissident, nationalist Kurdish-Turkish writer and
activist
Allegedly gunned down by a member of PKK (separatist
Kurdish Working Party)
Turan Dursun (1934 –
1990)
Previously a religious officer, an Islamic Scholar, a
writer, an atheist
Gunned down, for this killing a member of the Islamic
Movement Organization (tr: İslami Hareket Örgütü) was sentenced to life
imprisonment, but the person believed to be his killer, is still on the run
A book was found on his bed entitled "the Holy
Terror of Hizbullah" which, according to his relatives, did not belong to
Dursun and had probably been left as a message by the terrorists
Çetin Emeç (1935 –
1990)
A prominent Turkish journalist and columnist
Two people entered his car and shot him and his driver
For this killing four members of the Islamic Movement
Organization (tr: İslami Hareket Örgütü) were sentenced to life imprisonment,
but his brother does not believe that the true killers were caught
It is not easy to be a straight-forward individual in a conservative
society. And after re-checking the perpetrators in the above list, please
imagine a non-secular Turkey under an intolerant regime for a brief moment. The
arrested, imprisoned, attacked journalists will be mentioned in the future
writings here as well as the civil liberties.
- http://www.bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/119396-murder-of-hayirsevener-was-not-a-personal-issue
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Turkey
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