Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved.
Born in Trabzon in 1919, Bahriye Üçok finished her primary education in Ordu and then graduated from Kandilli High School for Girls in Istanbul.
[2] In 1977, Üçok joined the center-left Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP).
Not long after, on October 6, 1990,[3] she was killed by a letter bomb as she was trying to open a book package in front of her house.
[5] Gülay Calap, known as the "parcel-girl" who had accepted the packet for delivery, disappeared for a long period after the assassination.