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Article: Silenced: Turkish-Cypriot journalist assassinated (Kutlu Adali).
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- New Internationalist
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- December 1, 1996
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KUTLU ADALI, a well-known Turkish-Cypriot journalist, was shot dead outside his home in the Turkish occupied territories of Cyprus on 7 July of this year. Adali is one of four Turkish-Cypriots to have been killed in separate incidents on the island last summer. Turkish-Cypriots are rapidly becoming an endangered minority within the Turkish part of Cyprus. According to an article Kutlu Adali wrote in 1995, 40,000 Turkish-Cypriots have left Cyprus since 1974, to be replaced by 100,000 mainland Turks. `It will soon be difficult to pinpoint a single Turkish-Cypriot on the Island,' Adali wrote earlier this year.
Although a census has yet to be carried out in the ...