High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! U ur Mumcu (August 22, 1942 January 24, 1993) was an intrepid Turkish investigative journalist for the leading Kemalist broadsheet, Cumhuriyet. He was assassinated with a bomb placed in his car, outside his home. U ur Mumcu was born as the third of four siblings in K r ehir, where his father was working. He went to school in Ankara and in 1961 attended School of Law at Ankara University. After graduation in 1965, he practiced law for a while. He then visited England to learn English and upon his return to Turkey worked as a teaching assistant at Ankara University from 1969 to 1972.