List of assassinated people from Turkey

The following is an incomplete, chronological list of people from Turkey murdered by assassins mainly on political and religious grounds. Many were critical public servants and intellectuals assassinated by far-right proponents of an army-controlled Turkish Republic.[1] Many of the victims have historically been intellectual proponents of laicism and the strict separation of religion and state in Turkey, as defined in the constitution, and diplomats who were victims of militant attacks outside of Turkey.[2]

Mustafa Suphi

Sabahattin Ali

1970s

Mehmet Baydar and Bahadır Demir

The event is considered to be the first in a decade-long chain of organized attacks against Turkish diplomats by Armenian militant groups.[4]

Daniş Tunalıgil

Ismail Erez

Taha Carim

Bedrettin Cömert

Doğan Öz

Abdi İpekçi

Metin Yüksel

Cevat Yurdakul

28 September 1979: Turkish prosecutor.

Cavit Orhan Tütengil

1980s

Ümit Kaftancıoğlu

Gün Sazak

Nihat Erim

Kemal Türkler

Atilla Altıkat

1990s

Muammer Aksoy

Çetin Emeç

Turan Dursun

Bahriye Üçok

Memduh Ünlütürk

Kemal Kayacan

Musa Anter

Zübeyir Akkoç

Uğur Mumcu

Cem Ersever

Onat Kutlar

Metin Göktepe

Özdemir Sabancı

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı

2000s

Gaffar Okkan

Üzeyir Garih

Necip Hablemitoğlu

Andrea Santoro

On 5 September 2006 he was shot dead from behind while kneeling in prayer in the church. A witness heard the perpetrator shouting "Allahu Akbar".[1][2] A 16-year-old high school student was arrested two days after the shooting carrying a 9mm pistol. An investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations on stolen weaponry in Iraq revealed that the gun was of the same type used in the supposedly Islamist attack on the Turkish Council of State in 2006.

Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin

Hrant Dink

Necati Aydın, Uğur Yüksel and Tilman Geske

İhya Balak

Ahmet Yıldız

Cihan Hayırsevener

See also

References

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  2. Armenian Terrorism against Turkish diplomatic and non-diplomatic institutions - A Chronological List, 1973 - 1986
  3. Shaw, Stanford J., History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Vol. 2. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 354.
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  29. Cihan Hayırsevener, Committee to Protect Journalists
  30. Editor killed by unknown gunmen in Turkey, Committee to Protect Journalists, December 21, 2009
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