He had previously received death threats, and had written an article on the Counterguerrilla in the 2–8 February issue.
[3] Yeni Ülke's Mecit Akgün was found hanged to an electric pole on 2 June, by PKK according to a note left on the scene.
[4][5] Journalist Yahya Orhan, who wrote for Özgür Gündem and Yeni Ülke, was assassinated on 31 July 1992.
[6] Kemal Kılıç, a former correspondent for Özgür Gündem then writing for Yeni Ülke, was assassinated on 18 February 1993.
[4] Some of these assassinations were later mentioned in the 1998 Prime Ministry report into the Susurluk scandal, in a censored section later leaked to the press.