The assassination attempt on the prominent journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman by an eighteen-year-old nationalist, Huseyin Uzmez, in 1952, signified an important change in nationalist conservatism during the multi-party years. During the Second World War, a group of Turkish nationalists diverged themselves from the ruling Kemalist regime by developing a sharp opposition to communism based on ethnic Turkish identity from the mid-1940s onward. With the beginning of multi-party years, Turkish nationalist conservatism transitioned by synthesizing Islamist and nationalist ideologies. The assassination attempt of Yalman showed that not only left-wing intellectuals but also liberals also could be the target of Islamist nationalist ideology. This presentation aims to discuss how nationalism transitioned during the multi-party years and what characteristics made Yalman a target of this Islamic nationalist ideology. This presentation will also attempt to evaluate how the people involved in the assassination attempt narrated this incident and how the personal correspondences between Yalman and Uzmez challenge this narration.