The following is an incomplete, chronological list of people from Turkey murdered by assassins mainly on political and religious grounds.
Many were critical public servants and intellectuals assassinated by far-right proponents of an army-controlled Turkish Republic.
[2] The event is considered to be the first in a decade-long chain of organized attacks against Turkish diplomats by Armenian militant groups.
12 October 1979: son of the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands, Özdemir Benler, murderered by ASALA.
19 December 2009: founder and editor of the daily Güney Marmara’da Yaşam, was shot in a street in Bandırma, Balıkesir Province and died later that day at a hospital in Bursa.