Doğan Öz (1934 – 24 March 1978) was a Turkish prosecutor. He was assassinated in 1978 while investigating the Turkish
deep state
Deep state is a term used for (real or imagined) potential, unauthorized and often secret networks of power operating independently of a State (polity), state's political leadership in pursuit of their own agendas and goals.
Although the term ori ...
. In 1978 he wrote a report for Prime Minister
Bülent Ecevit
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in 197 ...
accusing clandestine groups of creating chaos in order to lay the ground for a military takeover.
Haluk Kırcı, a
Grey Wolves activist, was implicated in his assassination.
A Grey Wolves member named İbrahim Çiftçi was found guilty of the assassination; however his conviction was overturned "after his attorney submitted a document showing that his file was held by the Ministry of Defense".
[H. Akin Ünver (2009),]
Turkey’s “Deep-State” and the Ergenekon Conundrum
", The Middle East Institute Policy Brief 23, April 2009 p8-9; citing Can Dündar
Can Dündar (, born 16 June 1961) is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. Editor-in-chief of center-left ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the ...
's TV-documentary series “40 Dakika” 0 minutes broadcast on January 7, 1997
References
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1934 births
1978 deaths
Assassinated Turkish civil servants
Turkish prosecutors
20th-century Turkish lawyers
Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)