Ümit Kaftancıoğlu (1935 – 11 April 1980) was a Turkish TV producer, writer and columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
Kaftancıoğlu was born in Saskara village, Hanak, Ardahan Province.
He graduated from Cilavuz Village Institute in 1957 and worked as a primary school teacher in Derik in Mardin Province and as a teacher in Balıkesir Necatibey Institute of Education before entering into the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).
On 11 April 1980, he was gunned down in front of his home in Istanbul as he was about to get in his car.
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