ISTANBUL — 1979 · Murder
Assassination of Abdi İpekçi
Abdi İpekçi, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Milliyet, was killed in an armed attack in his car in Nişantaşı on the evening of 1 February 1979. The assassination is regarded as one of the gravest attacks on the press amid the political violence of the late 1970s. One of the suspects caught in connection with the killing escaped from a military prison in 1979, keeping the case on the agenda for years. The trials and the question of who ordered the killing were debated for a long time. The street where the attack happened was later named after İpekçi.
- Date
- 1979
- Place
- Şişli, Istanbul
- Category
- Murder
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- 41.0500, 28.9930 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 1 February 1979Abdi İpekçi was killed in an armed attack in Nişantaşı.
- 1979A captured suspect escaped from a military prison.
- Later yearsInvestigations into the instigators and links continued.
- TodayThe street where it happened bears İpekçi's name.
Sources
- BBC Türkçe – Arşiv odası: Abdi İpekçi bbc.com ↗
- Hürriyet – İpekçi'nin kızı ifade verdi hurriyet.com.tr ↗
- Vikipedi – Abdi İpekçi suikastı tr.wikipedia.org ↗
- BBC Türkçe
- Cumhuriyet
- Milliyet
- Hürriyet
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🕯️ This record was prepared with respect, in memory of those who lost their lives.