Background
He was born in the Eskimağara (in Kurdish:Ziving) village (Nusaybin District of the Mardin Province).
He was born in the Eskimağara (in Kurdish:Ziving) village (Nusaybin District of the Mardin Province).
He completed his primary education in Mardin, and then studied at junior and senior high school in Adana.
He was a prominent Kurdish writer, journalist and intellectual and was assassinated by Turkish JITEM in September 1992. Assassination
Anter was shot at a festival in 1992, in an incident in which Orhan Miroğlu was seriously injured. Some Turkish sources claimed that Abdülkadir Aygan, who was PKK militant and surrendered in 1985, then recruited as part of the first staff of JİTransmission Electron Microscopy (the Turkish Gendarmerie"s Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Service), had said he had been part of a JİTransmission Electron Microscopy unit, along with a "Hamit" from Şırnak, which had assassinated Musa Anter.
Other Turkish sources claimed that the perpetrators were PKK defectors Murat Ipek, on orders from Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil"), or Yeşil himself.
After long investigations, Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism was found guilty of Anter assassination and Turkey was fined related to his murder in 2006 by the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), who sentenced Turkey to a fine of 28,500 euros. A Diyarbakır court in 2013 charged four individuals with Anter"s murder, including Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil") and Abdülkadir Aygan.