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- <text id=93TT2432>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: Fingering Tehran
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 20
- Fingering Tehran
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Turks blame a reporter's murder on Iranian fundamentalist hit
- squads
- </p>
- <p> Ugur Mumcu was Turkey's top investigative reporter and an
- articulate critic of Islamic fundamentalism. When a car bomb
- literally blew him to pieces in Ankara, Turks naturally
- suspected radical fundamentalists. Ozgen Acar, his editor at
- Cumhuriyet, the newspaper where Mumcu had worked for the past
- 18 years, said the murder was the work of agents sent from Iran,
- "the same people who are after Salman Rushdie."
- </p>
- <p> Within a day, the police picked up 11 Iranian, Syrian,
- Libyan and Turkish suspects, said Acar, and authorities believe
- the murder may be linked to six others, including the deaths of
- an Israeli security officer and a U.S. serviceman. Prime
- Minister Suleyman Demirel spoke of "certain powers trying to
- create division and havoc in Turkey." In Ankara hundreds of
- thousands of mourners tossed red carnations at Mumcu's
- flag-draped coffin. At the Iranian consulate in Istanbul and
- elsewhere, protesting crowds chanted, "We are not Iran!"
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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