Thousands turn out to remember slain Turkish journalist

[ozgurluk at xs4all.nl]

   ISTANBUL, Jan 24 (AFP) - Thousands of Turks turned out across  
the country Sunday to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the 
murder of a prominent journalist and to demand that his killers be 
found and brought to justice. 
   Ugur Mumcu, a reporter for the daily Cumhuriyet who had been  
investigating links between the mafia and the state, was killed by a 
bomb placed in his car in Ankara on January 24, 1993. 
   The murder is widely believed to have been committed by gangs  
operating with the implicit consent of the state and licensed to 
kill political dissenters, but no arrests have yet been made. 
   At ceremonies in several cities on Sunday, mourners carried  
candles and pictures of Mumcu, and laid flowers and wreaths at 
memorial stones for the journalist. 
   "Mumcu lives on," several hundred marchers at a rally in  
Istanbul chanted. 
   Ceremonies were held outside Mumcu's home and at the Cumhuriyet  
editorial offices in Istanbul, at the site of the explosion in 
Ankara, and at memorials erected to Mumcu in half a dozen other 
towns, according to the Anatolia news agency. 
  	   	


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