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About the Foundation
Uğur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation (um:ag) was established in October 1994 by Güldal Mumcu, Özgür Mumcu and Özge Mumcu, wife and children of the Investigator-Journalist Uğur Mumcu, who was assassinated by a bomb fixed under his car on 24 January 1993 and who did not sacrifice anything from his social sensibility and responsibility throughout his whole life. The aim of the Foundation is to continue to spread the ideas and principles of Uğur Mumcu and to encourage young journalists who are sensible about social problems, who have ideals of labor and humanity, to work in the field of journalism.
Apart from its main objective, um:ag is also serving as a culture-art-education center together with its opportunities of literature, philosophy, painting, cinema activities, children projects and some in-service training activities that it provides for people from all ranges of age, who rejects to be ordinary.
um:ag also publishes and presents its readers the publications about Uğur Mumcu, some collections, research articles and reports written on journalism and social problems as well as all the works and articles of Uğur Mumcu which are priceless sources of reference for those who wants to understand the past and today. Uğur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation, which has the status of a foundation in the public interest, is serving with its departments established in accordance with its objective, that are Management, Financial-Administrative Affairs, Education, Culture and Art, Publishing, Public Relations.
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Social Memory Platform’s Statement
The purpose of this statement is to mark the negligence of the Republic of Turkey on the issue of Sivas Massacre and to make the international press and public opinion aware.
For Hrant for Justice
For 4 years we keep looking for the judiciary, the government, the parliament. We cannot find them.
