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- Subject: AF/ATS: Kurdish journalist murdered
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- 11 August 1992
-
- PRESS RELEASE
-
- WRITER HUSEYIN DENIZ HAS NOW BEEN MURDERED TOO!
-
- Gundem newspaper correspondent, writer and member of International
- PEN, Huseyin Deniz, resident of Ceylanpinar (the Kurdish province
- of Urfa) was subject to an armed attack two days ago and died
- yesterday. He was shot in the head from behind at close range. He
- died in hospital.
-
- Huseyin Deniz has been working as a journalist in the Kurdish
- region for the past ten years and also researched on folklore
- there. Along with writing a column in our paper and working as a
- correspondent he reported for the National News Agency and
- Cumhuriyet newspaper and his work was frequently published in books
- and research papers from his post in Ceylanpinar.
-
- The attack was the third attack on Gundem personnel within the last
- ten days. Last week, Diyarbakir/Gercus correspondent Yahya Orhan
- was killed and after that our Diyarbakir correspondent Burhan
- Karadeniz was the victim of an armed attack in which he was
- seriously wounded.
-
- What is the reason for this slaughter of journalists?
-
- For the past 3 months our daily newspaper has drawn attention to
- reports concerning state terror, abuses and torture in the Kurdish
- region along with the operations of the contra-guerrillas. As with
- the murder of our colleague Hafiz Akdemir two months ago, the
- perpetrators have not been identified. Moreover, government
- spokesmen have not even considered it necessary to denounce these
- attacks upon our members of the press. This increases our
- suspicions that the killers are being protected. The official
- inquiry into the Huseyin Deniz case raises these further. After the
- event, relatives of Deniz who informed our paper stated that a
- vehicle belonging to the civilian police had been stationed outside
- the Viransehir office of our correspondent for a considerable
- period and that those who came and went had been under
- surveillance. Only prior to this morning's attack, no police were
- seen anywhere near the workplace. Eye witnesses said that two
- unknown youths ran from the scene of the attack for no apparent
- reason.
-
- We call upon all members of the press worldwide who seek to report
- the truth to take a stand against this slaughter of Kurdish
- journalist.
-
- Hasan Bildirici
- Gundem Editor in Chief
-
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