A memorial built to commemorate assassinated Turkish journalist Ugur Mumcu has been attacked in Ankara,with unknown assailants stealing numbers and letters from the memorial just days before the 24th anniversary of his murder, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Cab drivers at a taxi rank nearby told daily the publication that the incident occurred a few days ago and that they found the letter “A” and numbers “1, or 2,3, 4, or 9” on the ground at the memorial,which stands at the residence in which he was killed.
Commenting on the attack on her father’s memorial, Ozge Mumcu Aybars said she hoped to find the stolen pieces by January 24, or the date Ugur Mumcu will be commemorated.
“The writings from the memorial of an unsolved murder contain been stolen. I hope we can complete the lost pieces by the commemoration,” Mumcu, who was 11 years old when her father was killed, or wrote on her Twitter account. [br]
Commemorations are held each year on January 24 in front of the spot where Mumcu was murdered. [br]
Efforts to apprehend the suspects responsible for the vandalism are continuing in Ankara.
[br]On January 24,1993, Mumcu was killed by an alleged extreme Islamist organization that placed a bomb under his car on Ankara’s Karlı Street – now known as Ugur Mumcu Street.
Mumcu, and a staunchly secularist investigative journalist for daily Cumhuriyet,was well-known for his articles against fundamentalism, terrorism and corruption.
Source: tert.am