Uğur Mumcu is an iconic figure of Turkish investigative journalism as he was well one of the pioneers of investigative journalism with a serious professionalism handling corruption issues and illegal instrumentalisation of the state bodies.
There was much told about Uğur Mumcu as he was actually a law graduate and was interested in politics with his encounter to Doğan Avcıoğlu, who was the leading ideologues of the 1960 millitary intervention and its political aftermaths that so-called democratic revolution.
Historical context of the Uğur Mumcu affair can be better understood with the history of the Cumhuriyet Newspaper and the clash upon it took place between sides pursuing different political views, and also the mental development of the Republicanist or Kemalist intellectuals (just like the rest of the Turkey) were in fundamental opposition with the liberal values(or the opposite values, briefly apart from animosity) brought the 1980s has to be revisited as well. (See: 24 Ocak kararları)
Apart from his legend, after him, his case was used for surveillance as he was a victim of a terrorist attack with evidences of affiliation to an islamic organization: but these surveillance operations in various means had to be put under oversight primarily by the judiciary and also, necessarily, under different related bodies as well, which wasn't actually the case and unfortunately this affair was a symbol and de-escalation archetype/memory for an Islamist-Laicist rivalry in Turkey.
Islamist-Laicist rivalry could be reasonable on the European continent however the opposite movements in means of politics or benefits is not simple as such in a country like Turkey. Yet when legal and primarily judicial safeguards to ensure the preeminence of law are not provided apart from the rivalry between different political perspectives: fundamental rights and freedoms are put in vulnerablity for which the ruthless sides defending their political opinions with fury left no place for discussion or debate for what is necessary for the Rule of Law. Yet the recent discussion in Turkey was a clash over of whom will jeopardize the judicial body.
In Turkey's mind, Kemalists unlike its predecessors during the Ottoman period for an envy in Iran, were feeling much closer to countries like Syria or Egypt for their Islamic backgrounds as well as Westernist ambitions. But the removal of Islam has never been a purpose although religious lifestyle was disdained.
Turkey has always needed a model or would be said "the other" for a development especially because of the difficulties the modern era brought which would thought to be contributive for releasing the tension the country had been through. But it also had consequences in the foreign policy as well.
Yet the relations with -either favorable or not- neighbors was so much politicised which shouldn't have been, as the principles of the international affairs suggests, also given the opportunity to the afilliation of such unfortunate affairs with a too irrelative contentions in means of religion or politics etc. causing stigmatizations within the masses.
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