List of journalists killed in Turkey
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Following the killing of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 various lists of journalists killed in Turkey since the early 20th century were published. One such list was published by the Turkish Association of Journalists (tr: Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti). It contains 68 names of journalists killed between 1909 and 2022.{{Cite web |title=Öldürülen Gazeteciler |url=https://www.tgc.org.tr/oldurulen-gazeteciler.html |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=www.tgc.org.tr |archive-date=19 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419023808/https://www.tgc.org.tr/oldurulen-gazeteciler.html |url-status=live }} A "Platform of imprisoned journalists" published a list in April 2012 that contained 112 names.{{Cite web |last= |date=2012-04-04 |title=103 yılda 112 gazeteci ve yazar öldürüldü |url=https://www.gazeteciler.com/haber/103-yilda-112-gazeteci-ve-yazar-olduruldu/207017 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website= |language=tr-TR |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417134816/https://www.gazeteciler.com/haber/103-yilda-112-gazeteci-ve-yazar-olduruldu/207017 |url-status=live }} Yet, it is difficult to obtain detailed information in particular on early cases, in order to determine whether the deaths had been assassinations directly linked to the profession of the victims.
It also appears that some people were not journalists by profession, but affiliated to certain publications as readers, vendors or even part-time publishers of political comments. These people will not be included in the lists, apart from people who were killed because they distributed certain publications.
In some cases, the state has been involved in the deaths Kurdish journalists.
Killings until September 1980
Only few cases of journalists killed in Turkey between the foundation of the Republic and the military coup of 12 September 1980 were listed. Yet, some of these killings were high-profile assassinations that contributed to the atmosphere of political violence (often termed "civil war") that the Turkish army used as the main reason for its intervention. A bit more information is available on some of the 15 cases reported for this period:
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Killings in the 1980s and 1990s with laicist journalists as targets
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After the military coup of 1980 fewer journalists were killed in the fight between the radical left and the extreme right. After the end of the 1980s there have been several killings of journalists known for their anti-government attitude and secular (in Turkey also termed laicist). In some cases members of radical Islamic organizations have been prosecuted and condemned for these killings. In one case a militant of the PKK allegedly confessed to such a killing. Other killings in the 1980s and 1990s include:
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!Name!!Publication!!Place!!Date!!Remarks | ||||
| Mevlüt Işıt | Türkiye | Ankara | 1 June 1988 | |
| Kamil Başaran | Gazete | Istanbul | 28 February 1989 | Shot by the owner of a restaurant, who did not like his way of reporting. |
| Seracettin Müftüoğlu | Hürriyet | Nusaybin | 29 June 1989 | |
| Sami Başaran | Gazete | Istanbul | 7 November 1989 | He had an interview with the leader of a Kurdish tribe from Mardin in his office in Aksaray (Istanbul), where he was shot |
| Çetin Emeç | Hürriyet | Istanbul | 7 March 1990 | Two people entered his car and shot him and his driver Sinan Ercan. 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. |
| Turan Dursun | 2000'e Doğru | Istanbul | 4 September 1990 | A member of the Islamic Movement Organization (tr: İslami Hareket Örgütü was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the person believed to be his killer remains free.{{Cite web |title=Turan Dursun'un katili nerede? |url=https://www.istanbulgercegi.com/turan-dursun-un-katili-nerede-23709738.html |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=İstanbul Gerçeği |language=tr |archive-date=11 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611205619/https://www.istanbulgercegi.com/turan-dursun-un-katili-nerede-23709738.html |url-status=live }} |
| Uğur Mumcu | Cumhuriyet | Ankara | 24 January 1993 | While different hypothesis exist on who was behind the killing the prosecutor's office in Ankara maintains that two assassins were sentenced and a case opened against the third suspect, all three of them being members of the Tawhid-Salaam Jerusalem Organization (tr: Tevhid-Selam Kudüs) that was allegedly behind the murder.{{Cite news |date=12 May 2011 |title=Wall around Murder of Journalist Mumcu Holds |work=Bianet |url=https://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/129931-wall-around-murder-of-journalist-mumcu-holds |access-date=4 December 2022 |archive-date=8 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108121947/http://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/129931-wall-around-murder-of-journalist-mumcu-holds |url-status=live }} |
| Onat Kutlar | Cumhuriyet | Istanbul | 11 January 1995 | The brother of the archaeologist Yasemin Cebenoyan, who had died in the same bomb attack, complained that many people thought the murder had not been solved or that an Islamic organization was behind it. He was convicted in 2005, but as a confessor was released after 9.5 years' imprisonment.{{Cite web |last=CEBENOYAN |first=CÜNEYT |title=Onat Kutlar cinayeti ve PKK |url=https://www.birgun.net/haber/onat-kutlar-cinayeti-ve-pkk-6408 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=birgun.net |language=Turkish |archive-date=1 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101115729/https://www.birgun.net/haber/onat-kutlar-cinayeti-ve-pkk-6408 |url-status=live }} The attack was later revealed to be carried out by PKK.{{cite web | url=http://www.ntv.com.tr/arsiv/id/25166246/ | title=Archive.ph | access-date=3 November 2022 | archive-date=31 December 2014 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20141231155644/http://www.ntv.com.tr/arsiv/id/25166246/ | url-status=dead }} |
| Ahmet Taner Kışlalı | Cumhuriyet | Ankara | 21 October 1999 | His death as well as the killings of Uğur Mumcu, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Prof. Dr. Muammer Aksoy and Assistant Professor Dr. Bahriye Üçok were the subject of a trial at Ankara Heavy Penal Court 11 known as the Umut (Hope) case. The court ruled that the defendants had formed an illegal organization by the name of "Kudüs Ordusu" (Jerusalem Army) and "Tevhid Selam" (Tawhid-Salaam) and had committed violent acts in Turkey. On 28 July 2005 one defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment, while seven others received sentences as leaders or members of an illegal organization.{{Cite web |title=Wochenbericht 30/2005 – DTF |url=https://www.tuerkeiforum.net/Wochenbericht_30/2005 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=www.tuerkeiforum.net |archive-date=4 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204185816/https://www.tuerkeiforum.net/Wochenbericht_30/2005 |url-status=live }} The Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence of the main suspect on 11 November 2006.{{Cite web |title=Wochenbericht 46/2006 – DTF |url=https://www.tuerkeiforum.net/Wochenbericht_46/2006 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=www.tuerkeiforum.net |archive-date=12 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712075155/https://www.tuerkeiforum.net/Wochenbericht_46/2006 |url-status=live }} |
Journalists and vendors killed in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict
In the 1990s the Kurdish-Turkish conflict became harsher with a large number of casualties on both sides. At the same time more and more civilians fell victim to extrajudicial killings, murders by unknown assailants (tr: faili meçhul), a term used in Turkish to indicate that the perpetrators were not identified because of them being protected by the State and cases of disappearance. Soon after the pro-Kurdish press had started to publish the first daily newspaper by the name of "Özgür Gündem" (Free Agenda) killings of Kurdish journalists started. In many cases, the state was blamed for murders and in some cases the Turkish variety of the radical Islamic organization Hizbullah was made responsible for the killings, in others the PKK was accused, but the majority remained without a clear indication to the persons behind the fatal attacks. Hardly any of them has been clarified or resulted in sanctions for the assailants. Among the 33 journalists that were killed in the first half of the 1990s are also cases not related to the Kurdish conflict. In 2008, the European Court of Human Right condemned Turkey for executing and assassinating Kurdish journalists and writers. Musa Anter, a prominent Kurdish writer, was killed by JİTEM in 1992.{{cite news|url=http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=151355 |access-date=7 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606143652/http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=151355 |archive-date=6 June 2012 |title=JİTEM's illegal actions cost Turkey a fortune }}
Among Kurdish patriots (tr: yurtsever, often used as an acronym for sympathizers of the PKK by the state) the "tradition" that started with Özgür Gündem is often called "history of the free press". In this context the figure of 76 victims (called martyrs of the press; tr: basın şehitleri) is often mentioned.See a film produced on the 20th anniversary of Özgür Gündem reproduced on the Wiki "B-Ob8ungen" under [http://ob.nubati.net/wiki/Freie_Presse_oder_Partei_im_Kurdenkonflikt%3F Freie Presse oder Partei im Kurdenkonflikt?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001104809/http://ob.nubati.net/wiki/Freie_Presse_oder_Partei_im_Kurdenkonflikt%3F |date=1 October 2018 }} (text in Turkish and German); accessed on 30 October 2012 In 2008, the ECHR has condemned Turkey for assassinating Musa Anter who was working for Özgur Gundem.
Yet, the number of staff members of the "free press" and volunteers to distribute dailies and weeklies termed "Kurdish free press" that were killed "on duty", particularly during the early stages of reporting on the Kurdish question in Turkey remains high. The list of names of distributors of Özgür Gündem and its successors that were killed (while the perpetrators mostly remained unknown) includes 18 names. Among the 33 journalists that were killed between 1990 and 1995 most were working for the so-called Kurdish Free Press.
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! Name!!Publication!!Place!!Date!!Remarks | ||||
| Gündüz Etil | Yeni Günaydın | Istanbul | 18 September 1991 | |
| Halit Güngen | 2000'e Doğru | Diyarbakır | 18 February 1992 | Killed by unidentified persons two days after reporting that eyewitnesses and sympathizers of Turkish Hezbollah had said that members of the organization were educated in the headquarters of Turkey's rapid deployment force (Çevik Kuvvet) in Diyarbakır.{{Cite journal |date=2000-02-16 |title=What is Turkey's Hizbullah? |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2000/02/16/what-turkeys-hizbullah/human-rights-watch-backgrounder |journal=Human Rights Watch |language=en |access-date=4 December 2022 |archive-date=4 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204185817/https://www.hrw.org/report/2000/02/16/what-turkeys-hizbullah/human-rights-watch-backgrounder |url-status=live }} |
| Cengiz Altun | Yeni Ülke | Batman | 25 February 1992 | Killed by six bullets fired into his back as he was on his way to work.The report of Human Rights Watch: The Kurds of Turkey: Killings, Disappearances and Torture of March 1993 can be found as [https://books.google.com/books?id=Pyz9fz6il38C google-books] or as [https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/TURKEY933.PDF a PDF file] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916090608/https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/TURKEY933.PDF |date=16 September 2020 }}; accessed on 31 October 2012 |
| İzzet Kezer | Sabah | Cizre, Şırnak Province | 23 March 1992 | A journalist for the mainstream daily, Sabah; shot and killed by security forces during violence that followed the celebration of the Kurdish New Year. During a state-imposed curfew, Kezer and other journalists emerged from their hotel waving white flags. No shooting was going on at the time. Kezer, at the head of the group, reached an intersection and was shot dead by security forces who fired from an armored personnel carrier. No action was taken against the security forces responsible for his death. |
| Bülent Ülkü | Körfeze Bakış | Bursa | 1 April 1992 | Found wounded near Uludağ on 1 April and died shortly afterwards. The autopsy certified marks of handcuffs and ink on his fingers.See the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation for 1992 (Turkish), Ankara January 1993, pages 143-148 Officials claimed that he was the victims of an internal dispute between left-wing organizations, but friends denied this.See an [http://blog.milliyet.com.tr/bulent-ulku-12-eylul-sonrasinin-bir-basin-sehidi/Blog/?BlogNo=326729 article of 22 September 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720042602/http://blog.milliyet.com.tr/bulent-ulku-12-eylul-sonrasinin-bir-basin-sehidi/Blog/?BlogNo=326729 |date=20 July 2013 }} and a comment in "sosyalist barikat" of September 1992 [http://www.barikat-lar.de/barikat/birincibar/6/basina.htm Basına Saldırılar Sistemleşiyor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006072851/http://www.barikat-lar.de/barikat/birincibar/6/basina.htm |date=6 October 2022 }}; accessed on 1 November 2012 |
| Mecit Akgün | 2000e Doğru | Nusaybin, Mardin | 2 June 1992 | His body was found hanging from a telephone pole near the village of Colova in Nusaybin. It was claimed that a statement was found on his body saying that he was "punished because he was a traitor", this was allegedly signed by the PKK. |
| Hafız Akdemir | Özgür Gündem | Diyarbakır | 8 June 1992 | Killed by a single bullet into the back of his head, fifty meters from his home in Diyarbakir. Özgür Gündem began publication on 30 May 1992; reporters stated that they had received telephoned threats for several days, several addressed to Akdemir. He had written about the Islamic organization Hezbollah and Turkish counterguerrillas.{{cite web|url=https://cpj.org/killed/1992/hafiz-akdemir.php|title=Hafiz Akdemir – Journalists Killed – Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=7 September 2016|archive-date=22 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222005930/https://cpj.org/killed/1992/hafiz-akdemir.php|url-status=live}} |
| Çetin Ababay | Özgür Halk | Batman | 29 July 1992 | Shot in the head by three unidentified men while on his way home in Batman. |
| Yahya Orhan | Özgür Gündem | Gercüş, Batman Province | 31 July 1992 | Shot and killed by unknown assailants. Özgür Gündem reported that he had been stopped on the street and threatened. |
| Hüseyin Deniz | Özgür Gündem | Ceylanpınar, Şanlıurfa Province | 9 August 1992 | Critically wounded by a bullet fired into his neck. He was also the regional correspondent for the daily, Cumhuriyet. |
| Musa Anter | Özgür Gündem | Diyarbakır | 20 September 1992 | He had written for Özgür Gündem and Yeni Ulke, as well as for the Kurdish newspaper Welat. He was also the chairman of the board of the Mesopotamian Cultural Center in Istanbul. He was reportedly lured from his hotel on false pretenses and shot in the outskirts of Diyarbakir. A relative accompanying him was shot and wounded at the same time. |
| Mehmet Sait Erten | Azadi-Denk | Diyarbakır | 3 November 1992 | |
| Yaşar Aktay | free-lanced | Hani, Diyarbakır | 9 November 1992 | Killed during clashes between the PKK militants and government forces. |
| Hatip Kapçak | Serbest/Hürriyet | Mazıdağı, Mardin | 18 November 1992 | Mardin reporter for a local newspaper, Soz, and for the weekly journal, Gercek (Fact). Killed in an armed attack in the Mazidagi district of Mardin on 18 November. He had been researching and reporting on the activities of the Turkish Hezbollah organization, which allegedly has ties to security forces. He had served six years in prison on political charges following the 1980 military coup. After his release, he wrote for the mainstream daily, Gunes, and then for the daily, Hurriyet. |
| Namık Tarancı | Gerçek | Diyarbakır | 20 November 1992 | Shot and killed on his way to work. He reportedly received three bullets in his head after an attack by two assailants and died on the spot. |
| Kemal Kılıç | Yeni Ülke | Şanlıurfa | 18 February 1993 | Shot dead with two bullets in the head by four assailants. He had been writing for the newspaper Yeni Ulke since the suspension of publication of Özgür Gündem in January. He was also a member of the board of the Urfa Branch of the Turkish Human Rights Association. Mehmet Senol, the Diyarbakir representative for Özgür Gündem, reported that Kilic had applied for a gun license, but that his application had been rejected. He was shot and killed by unknown assailants in Kulunce Village, near Sanliurfa. Police had questioned him about a news release he had published on the difficulties distributors had faced in selling the newspaper in Sanliurfa Province.{{Cite web |title=Kemal Kilic |url=https://cpj.org/data/people/kemal-kilic/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724040327/https://cpj.org/data/people/kemal-kilic/ |url-status=live }} |
| Mehmet İhsan Karakuş | Silvan Gazetesi | Silvan, Diyarbakır | 13 March 1993 | Owner of the local newspaper Silvan. Shot by unknown assailants that were not identified until the end of 1993.See the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation for 1993 (Turkish), Ankara June 1995, pages 230-238 |
| Ercan Gürel | Hürriyet News Agency | Bergama, İzmir Province | 20 May 1993 | Veysel Özakıncı was detained as his killer and stated that he killed him because of a dispute of the ownership of land. |
| Ömer Taşar | Milli Gazete | Sarajevo | 26 June 1993 | Killed by fire opened from Serbian positions while covering the Bosnian Civil War. |
| İhsan Uygur | Sabah | Istanbul | 6 July 1993 | |
| Rıza Güneşer | Halkın Gücü | Istanbul | 14 July 1993 | Owner of the left-wing journal "Halkın Gücü". The murder is believed to have been committed by the "Bedri Yağan group", a split of the Devrimci Sol |
| Ferhat Tepe | Özgür Gündem | Bitlis | 28 July 1993 | Disappeared when he was reportedly forced to get into a car. Although several teams of police were seen patrolling the streets at the time, they denied any knowledge of the incident. On 8 August a body found in Lake Hazar, near Elazığ, was identified as being Tepe's.{{Cite web |title=Ferhat Tepe |url=https://cpj.org/data/people/ferhat-tepe/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724040253/https://cpj.org/data/people/ferhat-tepe/ |url-status=live }} On 9 May 2003 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the material in the case file does not enable it to conclude beyond all reasonable doubt that the applicant's son was abducted and killed by any State agent or person acting on behalf of the State authorities.{{Cite web |title=HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights |url=https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-61089 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=hudoc.echr.coe.int |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125517/https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-61089 |url-status=live }} |
| Muzaffer Akkuş | Milliyet | Bingöl | 20 September 1993 | Killed by unknown assailants. |
| Ruhi Can Tul | TDNTurkish Daily News (TDN) later became Hürriyet Daily News. | Kırıkkale | 14 January 1994 | Died when a bomb exploded in a bus going from Ankara to Samsun. Three others were killed. The PKK allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack.See the annual report of the Human Rights Foundation for 1992 (English), Ankara September 1995, {{ISBN|975 7217 04 2}}, pages 247-249 |
| Nazım Babaoğlu | Gündem | Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province | 12 March 1994 | Presumed dead after disappearing in Siverek, a small town near Sanliurfa. He had traveled there to follow up on a news tip from a colleague, who later denied phoning him.{{Cite web |title=Nazim Babaoglu |url=https://cpj.org/data/people/nazim-babaoglu/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724040410/https://cpj.org/data/people/nazim-babaoglu/ |url-status=live }} |
| Kamil Koşapınar | Zaman | Erzurum | 19 March 1994 | According to the newspaper he worked for, he was killed by a stray bullet at a photo shop. |
| İsmail Ağay | Özgür Ülke | Batman | 29 May 1994 | Surname might be Ağaya; according to the Bar Association in Batman he is "missing" since December 1994.{{Cite web |last=Gazetesi |first=Batman Haberler Çağdaş |title=Nihat Ekinci - KMM VE KAYIPLAR |url=https://www.batmancagdas.com/kmm-ve-kayiplar-makale,2593.html |access-date=2022-12-04 |website= |language=tr |archive-date=23 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923113313/https://www.batmancagdas.com/kmm-ve-kayiplar-makale,2593.html |url-status=live }} |
| Erol Akgün | Devrimci Çözüm | Gebze, Kocaeli Province | 8 September 1994 | Editor-in-chief of the left-wing weekly Devrimci Cozum. Killed by unidentified assailants as he left his home in Gebze, near Istanbul. His colleagues at the paper believe a rival left-wing faction killed him because he was the weekly's editor.{{Cite web |title=Erol Akgun |url=https://cpj.org/data/people/erol-akgun/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724040356/https://cpj.org/data/people/erol-akgun/ |url-status=live }} |
| Bahri Işık | Çağdaş Marmara | Istanbul | 17 September 1994 | |
| Ersin Yıldız | Özgür Ülke | Istanbul | 3 December 1994 | Died when the offices of his paper in Istanbul were destroyed by a bomb, planted by unidentified persons, 19 staff members were wounded. |
| Bekir Kutmangil | Yeni Günaydın | Istanbul | 23 May 1995 | Owner of the local newspaper, but was reportedly involved in affairs of organized crime. A rival was made responsible for the killing.See an article in Zaman of 2 June 1995 [https://archive.today/20130418172159/http://www.zaman.com.tr/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=324081 Kutmangil cinayeti aydınlandı]; accessed on 1 November 2012 and a comment of Tuncay Özkan in Radikal of 30 June 2000 [http://www.radikal.com.tr/2001/01/23/t/turkiye/01cic.shtml Cici oldu, sorularsa ortada]; accessed on 1 November 2012 |
| Nail Aydın | Son Haber | Giresun | 28 July 1995 | |
| Seyfettin Tepe | Yeni Politika | Bitlis | 28 August 1995 | Also spelled Safyettin Tepe, was taken into custody on 22 August. Four days later he was moved to the Bitlis Security Directorate. He died in custody on 29 August. His family was told that he committed suicide but rejects that official explanation.{{Cite web |title=Sayfettin Tepe |url=https://cpj.org/data/people/sayfettin-tepe/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724040425/https://cpj.org/data/people/sayfettin-tepe/ |url-status=live }} |
At the same time several people distributing pro-Kurdish newspaper in the region under a state of emergency, were also killed.Information was taken from a page called [http://guncelyorum-canadil.blogspot.de/2010/09/onlarn-sayesinde-4.html Onlarin Sayesinde -4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705104542/http://guncelyorum-canadil.blogspot.de/2010/09/onlarn-sayesinde-4.html |date=5 July 2017 }} (Because of them -4), a page at Newededersim called [http://www.newededersim.com/news_detail.php?id=10654 Kürt basını 114 yaşında] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130130071724/http://www.newededersim.com/news_detail.php?id=10654 |date=30 January 2013 }} (Kurdish press aged 114) and annual reports of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.
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Killings of journalists since 1995
The killings of journalists in Turkey since 1995 are more or less individual cases. Most prominent among the victims is Hrant Dink, killed in 2007, but the death of Metin Göktepe also raised great concern, since police officers beat him to death. Since 2014, several Syrian journalists who were working from Turkey and reporting on the rise of Daesh have been assassinated.
The death of Metin Alataş in 2010 is also a source of disagreement – while the autopsy claimed it was suicide, his family and colleagues demanded an investigation. He had formerly received death threats and had been violently assaulted.{{cite web|url=https://www.cpj.org/killed/2010/metin-alatas.php|title=Metin Alataş – Journalists Killed – Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=3 February 2015|archive-date=3 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703143953/https://www.cpj.org/killed/2010/metin-alatas.php|url-status=live}}
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