Musa Anter
| Musa Anter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1920 Nusaybin, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | September 20, 1992 Diyarbakır, Turkey |
| Occupation | Writer, political activist |
Musa Anter (1920 in Nusaybin – September 20, 1992 in Diyarbakır), also known as "Ape Musa" (Kurdish: Apê Musa, literally "Uncle Musa"), was a Kurdish dissident writer and activist.[1][2] He was a prominent Kurdish writer, journalist and intellectual and was assassinated by Turkish JITEM in September 1992.[3][4][5]
Biography
He was born in the Eskimağara (in Kurdish:Ziving) village (Nusaybin District of the Mardin Province). He completed his primary education in Mardin, and then studied at junior and senior high school in Adana. When he was a student, he had been to Syria during his summer holidays and got acquaintance with Kurdish nationalist intellectuals[6] such as Celadet and Kamuran Bedir Khan, Kadri and Ekrem Cemilpaşa, Dr. Nafiz, Nuri Zaza, Nuri Dersimi, Qedrîcan, Osman Sabri, Haco Agha and his son Hasan, Emînê Perîxanê's son Şikriye Emîn, Mala Elyê Unus, Teufo Ciziri and Cigerxwîn.[7]
Assassination
Anter was shot at a festival in 1992, in an incident in which Orhan Miroğlu was seriously injured. Some Turkish sources claimed that Abdülkadir Aygan, who was PKK militant and surrendered in 1985,[8] then recruited as part of the first staff of JİTEM (the Turkish Gendarmerie's Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Service),[8] had said he had been part of a JİTEM unit, along with a "Hamit" from Şırnak, which had assassinated Musa Anter.[9]
Other Turkish sources claimed that the perpetrators were PKK defectors Murat Ipek, on orders from Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil"),[10] or Yeşil himself.[11]
After long investigations, Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism was found guilty of Anter assassination and Turkey was fined related to his murder in 2006 by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), who sentenced Turkey to a fine of 28,500 euros.[5] A Diyarbakır court in 2013 charged four individuals with Anter's murder, including Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil") and Abdülkadir Aygan.[12]
References
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- ECtHR judgment(French)
- Ahmet Alış, "Üç Devrin" Tanığı: Modern Kürt Siyasi Tarihinin İçinden Musa Anter'i Okumak, Birikim, September 20, 2010. (Turkish)
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