Ugur Mumcu

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Monument to Mumcu in Selçuk

Uğur Mumcu (born August 22, 1942 in Kırşehir , † January 24, 1993 in Ankara ) was a Turkish publicist and writer. Mumcu wrote on domestic political issues in Turkey, ranging from corruption , arms smuggling, Islamism to the situation of the Kurds in Turkey .

Life

His mother was Nadire Hanim and his father was Hakkı Şinasi Bey, a civil servant. His family was originally from Aksaray . Due to his father's occupation, the family moved to Kırşehir , where Mumcu was born as the third of four children. He attended elementary and middle school in Ankara. In 1961 he began to study law at Ankara University , which he graduated in 1965. In 1962 he won his first journalism award for an article on Turkish socialism.

While doing his military service, he was charged with denigrating the army and sentenced to seven years in prison because of a critical article about the Turkish army . The sentence was later overturned. From 1972 to 1974 Mumcu did his military service in Ağrı . From 1975 Mumcu wrote columns for the Cumhuriyet newspaper . In 1977 he married Güldal Homan. The couple had two children named Özgür and Özge.

On January 24, 1993, Mumcu was murdered in a bomb attack. The bomb exploded in his car. The perpetrators have not yet been caught. The day after his death, tens of thousands of people protested in various major cities in Turkey. He was buried in the Cebeci Municipal Cemetery in Ankara.

In 1994 his family set up a foundation in his memory. His widow Şükran Güldal Mumcu has been a member of the CHP and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament since 2007 . His son Özgür Mumcu has been writing for Cumhuriyet since 2014 .

In honor of Uğur Mumcu, the bilingual exile newspaper Özgürüz went online on January 24, 2017, the 24th anniversary of his death.

Act

In the years 1969–1972 Mumcu was an assistant at the law faculty of Ankara University under Professor Tahsin Bekir Balta. During this time he started working for various newspapers and magazines. These included Milliyet , Ant Dergisi, Cumhuriyet and Devrim Dergisi.

After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for a few years. In 1965 he wrote for the first time in Yön Dergisi and in 1967 in Kim Dergisi and the Akşam newspaper. In 1968 he went to England to learn foreign languages . After completing his military service, he became a journalist in 1974 and worked for Yeni Ortam. In 1975 he moved to Cumhuriyet newspaper. In 1975 he published his first book entitled Suçlular ve Güçluler ( The Guilty and the Mighty ). From 1977 to 1991 he wrote exclusively for the Cumhuriyet newspaper. After quitting there in 1991, he was unemployed for a short time. After a brief interlude at Milliyet , he returned to Cumhuriyet in May 1992 .

Awards

Works

Works about Uğur Mumcu

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ English translation
  2. ^ "Protest marches in Turkey after the murder of journalists." In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 21, 1993.
  3. ^ Şükran Güldal Mumcu , short biography at the Turkish Parliament
  4. ↑ Karen Krüger: “Freedom Fighters. Can Dündar founds the online magazine 'Özgürüz' ”. In: FAZ, January 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mumcu, Ugur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Kırşehir
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1993
Place of death Ankara