Uğur Mumcu was a Turkish investigative journalist for the daily Cumhuriyet. He was assassinated by a bomb placed in his car outside his home.
Cover of Cumhuriyet on the tenth anniversary of Mumcu's assassination
Grave of Uğur Mumcu at Cebeci Asri Cemetery.
Cumhuriyet is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper. It has been described as "the most important independent public interest newspaper in contemporary Turkey". The newspaper was awarded the Freedom of Press Prize by Reporters Without Borders in 2015 and the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2016. It is considered Turkey's newspaper of record. It has been known for its stance of publishing anti-Islamist titles and news at least since the 1960s.
First page of the newspaper dated 8 April 1931
Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize.