Ayhan Hikmet was a Turkish Cypriot who was allegedly assassinated by the Turkish paramilitary group TMT. He was a London-trained barrister, and editor of the Turkish Cypriot weekly newspaper Cumhuriyet. On 23 April 1962, masked men broke into his home and shot him in the presence of his wife. His two children were asleep in another room. On the same day, his friend and colleague Ahmet Muzaffer Gürkan, who founded Cumhuriyet and served as its first editor, was also murdered. He was found dead in his car on the outskirts of Nicosia the following morning.