Kürşat Timuroğlu

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Kürşat Timuroğlu (born August 20, 1953 in Turkey ; died February 25, 1986 in Hamburg ) was a Turkish leftist and oppositionist. He was a co-founder of the Devrimci Demokrasi Kürt Derneği (DDKD) and a leading member of the Dev-Yol and fell victim to a murder by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Germany .

Life

Timuroğlu was born into a left family. Graduated from high school and enrolled in Middle East Technical University with the aim of becoming an architect. However, he was expelled from the university after the March 12 coup . Timuroğlu sympathized with the People's Liberation Army of Turkey and, according to his father, was active in a leading position for the organization in Istanbul. In 1975, Timuroğlu was gunned down during an armed conflict with Turkish right-wing extremists and was imprisoned in Sağmalcılar Prison in Istanbul . He was released from prison and fled to Germany in 1976, where he lived in Hamburg. In Germany he later worked as a social worker and politically joined the Devrimci Yol . After his forced expatriation by Turkey, Timuroğlu applied for German citizenship six months before his death.

death

Two months before Timuroğlu's death, PKK members shot dead his party comrade Mustafa Şahbaz in Paris. In the year before and after Timuroğlu's murder, the PKK murdered the following supporters of left-wing Turkish organizations in Europe:

  • Mustafa Tanguner; Copenhagen on November 4th 1985
  • Eyup Kemal Atsız; Copenhagen on December 23, 1985
  • Bulent Yaman; Lausanne on December 30, 1985
  • Ramazan Adıgüzel; Hanover on May 3, 1987
  • Ali Akagündüz; Paris on June 16, 1987

On February 25, Kürşat Timuroğlu was shot dead on the street in front of his apartment on Stiftstrasse (St. Georg) in Hamburg. The murderer, who was later sentenced to life imprisonment, shot him twice. Timuroğlu stumbled into a shop, where the perpetrator shot him in the head. Timuroğlu succumbed to his injuries two days later. After the crime, the perpetrator flew to Damascus and was met at the airport by a bodyguard of Abdullah Öcalan's and was later even promoted. Shortly before the murder, the PKK announced in its central organ that it would liquidate everyone who worked objectively and subjectively with collaborators. The information that led to the alleged perpetrator came several years later (1993) from the ranks of the PKK. The perpetrator was not caught until March 2001 when Croatian security forces crossed the border. He belonged to a PKK unit that was responsible for various murders of political opponents and members of the opposition. At the beginning of January 2002, the murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment in Hamburg. According to the court's findings, the PKK wanted to eliminate a proponent of a peaceful solution. According to the presiding judge, Abdullah Öcalan feared the loss of power and a decline in revenue from Europe. Kürşat Timuroğlu was married to Nilgün Timuroğlu and had two sons. He was buried on May 10, 1986 in Ankara at the Karşıyaka Cemetery.

rating

According to his father's statements, the PKK held Timuroğlu responsible for his exclusion from a left-wing union and had him killed for it. In Can Dündar's view , the murder was ordered by Öcalan, but the murderer was under the protection of the Turkish state, since he had entered and left Turkey many times. According to Taner Akçam , who was friends with Timuroğlu, Timuroğlu was killed because he had dared the murder of Semir - to criticize - a PKK dissidents. Jürgen Roth also blames the PKK for the murder because it could not tolerate criticism of Öcalan's dictatorial leadership style.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Can Dündar in the Milliyet of January 12, 2002
  2. ↑ TERRORISM: Vagabonds and Vampires. A Kurdish group in the Federal Republic attacked their compatriots Der Spiegel on May 25, 1987
  3. ^ PKK murder trial after 15 years , Die Welt, November 8, 2011
  4. ^ Murder on behalf of the PKK , taz of January 3, 2002
  5. ↑ In the style of an execution , the taz of January 3, 2001
  6. ↑ Report with the father Vecihi Timuroğlu appeared in the magazine 2000'e Doğru on August 26, 1987
  7. ↑ Sol içi infaz tabusu , Armenian weekly newspaper Agos, August 25, 2014
  8. ↑ Jürgen Roth: Networks of Terror. Europa-Verlag Hamburg 2001, page 94
personal data
SURNAME Timuroğlu, Kürşat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish leftist and PKK murder victim
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Turkey
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1986
Place of death Hamburg