Abdi İpekçi
 Abdi İpekçi    (intellectual, editor) | |
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| Born | 9 August 1929 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Died | 1 February 1979 (Age 49) |
Cause of death | gunshot |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Galatasaray High School, Istanbul University |
| Religion | crypto-Jewish |
| Victim of | • Grey Wolves • assassination • Counter-Guerrilla |
| Relatives | • İsmail Cem • Cemil İpekçi |
Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and human rights activist. He was murdered when he was editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which then had a centre-left political stance.
Death
On 1 February 1979, two members of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, Oral Çelik and Mehmet Ali Ağca (who later shot Pope John Paul II), murdered Abdi İpekçi in his car on the way back home from his office in front of his apartment building in Istanbul.
Communist writer and politician Çetin Altan, alleged that a journalist colleague who was a former admiral intelligence officer of the chiefs of staff, Sezai Orkunt, had informed him that the clandestine Counter-Guerrilla murdered İpekçi at the behest of the CIA's station chief in Turkey. İp
