Just off of Atatürk Boulevard, one of the city of Eskişehir’s main thoroughfares, lies a tidy park dedicated to Uğur Mumcu, an investigative journalist who was killed in a car bombing outside his Ankara home in 1993. The wreckage of that car, raised on a marble pedestal and preserved under glass, serves as the park’s centerpiece. The pedestal features a quote from Mumcu urging us not to forget victims of political violence. It comes from his 1975 poem “Sesleniş,” which honors the sacrifices of Turkish leftist youth. Mumcu’s murder remains…
