Renowned lecturer and Ph.D researcher in the field of sociology at Örebro University, Dr. Deniz was stabbed in the neck by an unknown assailant in December of 2007 and killed. 

Although the investigations by Swedish police continues, it is believed the murder could be politically-motivated.  Mr. Fuat Deniz dedicated much of his research to the Assyrian identity and the Turkish genocide of Assyrians. His masters thesis, A Minority's Odyssey: the Assyrian Example, was praised for its way of describing developments in social identities among Assyrians.

The late Dr. Fuat Deniz