ABSTRACT
In Turkey, political assassinations do have a long past. Particularly, since 1980s, due to the Kurdish insurgency, human rights activists and intellectuals challenging state policy and its strictly enforced official history have fallen victim to extrajudicial killings. It is believed that the perpetrators belong to “deep state,” a term used to describe a number of clandestine networks closely associated with the Turkish military and state bureaucracy. They were never brought to justice.
