[1] The alleged reasoning for the murder of Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin and wounding of four of his fellow judges was that they had previously voted against a Turkish schoolteacher being allowed to wear a traditional Islamic headscarf outside work.
[1] According to local news reports, the judges were in the midst of a daily meeting in the capital, when the gunman, who was later identified as a lawyer, burst into the room and fired his weapon.
Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead later that day in a hospital in Ankara.
[4] Also, the former secularist prime minister Bülent Ecevit attended Özbilgin's funeral in spite of his bad health condition.
The shooting represented a rise in tensions between the fundamentalist secular apparatus of state and supporters of religious rights, as well as Islamic fundamentalism.