15 reporters and 18 distributors killed

ANKARA (DIHA) – 33 workers of successors of Independent Kurdish press had been murdered mostly in two years between 1992 and 1994.

The list of names of murdered Kurdish reporters and distributors of Kurdish newspapers as follows;

Cengiz Altun; reporter of Yeni Ülke, killed on February 25, 1992 in Batman.

Mecit Akgün; reporter of Yeni Ülke, killed on June 2, 1992 in Nusaybin,

Hafız Akdemir; reporter of Özgür Gündem, killed on June 8, 1992 in Batman

Çetin Ababay; reporter of Özgür Halk, killed on June 29, 1992, in Batman

Yahya Orhan; reporter of Özgür Gündem, killed on August 9, 1992 in Gercüş

Hüseyin Deniz; reporter of Özgür Gündem, killed on August 9,1992 in
Ceylanpınar

Musa Anter; writer-columnist in Özgür Gündem, kidnapped and killed on September 20, 1992 in Nusaybin

Orhan Karaağar; reporter of Özgür Gündem, killed on January 19, 1992 in Van

Kemal Kılıç; reporter of Yeni Ülke, killed on February 18, 1993 in Şanlıurfa
Ferhat Tepe reporter of Özgür Gündem, killed on July 28, 5, 1993 in Bitlis
Nazım Babaoğlu; reporter of Gündem, killed on March 12, 1994 in Siverek
İsmail Ağay; reporter of Özgür Ülke, killed on May 29, 1994 in Batman
Ersin Yıldız; stuff of Özgür Ülke, killed on December 4, 1994, in Istanbul
Seyfettin Tepe and Mehmet Şenol reporters of Yeni Politika, killed on August 28, 1995 in Bitlis

Murdered distributors are as follows; Halil Adanır; Nowember 21-1992, Lokman Gündüz; December 31- 1992, Kemal Ekinci; December 16-1993, Teğmen Demir; July 5-1993, Haşim Yaşa; July 14-1993, Zülküf Akaya; September 28-1993, Adil Başkan; November 9-1993, Yalçın Yaşa; November 10- 1993, Kadir İpeksümer; November 19-1993, Adnan Işık; November 27-1993, Mehmet Sencer December 3 -1993, Nihat Yakut in 1998, Hikmet Yakut in 2003, Mehmetcan ..., İhsan Yakut, Siraç Pençe, Yahya Yakut (dates of deaths cannot known) and Metin Alataş; April 3 2010.

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