Hasan Fehmi, chief correspondent of the Serbesti newspaper was the first journalist killed in Turkey's short press history.
Since then 62 journalists have been murdered, most of them in the last 30 years.
Reminding the last incident, killing of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on January 19 this year, TGC chair Orhan Erinç urged the authorities to investigate and bring into light not only the gunman but those who solicited the murder.
Before Dink, it was Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Cumhuriyet daily columnist who was killed in 2000.
"In some of those murders not even the proprietors were caught. Politicians prefered to procrastinate the incidents", Erinç said.
"And today we're going through a period when journalists are under threat for wahet they write and say. We call on the government to secure journalists rights to life and provide the basic conditions for them to fulfill their work as intended" he added.
For such, all obstacles facing the implementation of freedom of expression should be lifted, including recent legislation changes, he said.(EÖ/EÜ)
