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List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations

January 01, 1970

This is a list of Turkish diplomats and other officials assassinated by Armenian militant organisations. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG) were Armenian nationalist militant groups[1] that targeted Turkish diplomats and officials in Europe, the Middle East, and North America in a series of bombings, shootings, and other attacks.[2] The group aimed to draw international attention to the Armenian genocide and to pressure Turkey to acknowledge the killings as a genocide.[3] The attacks resulted in the deaths of dozens of people, including Turkish diplomats, embassy staff, and bystanders, and injured many more.[4] The group's actions were widely condemned by the international community including the Reagan administration that labelled the assassinations as terrorism.[5][6][7] In the following years, the international community's response led to a wave of arrests and extraditions of ASALA members.[8][9] The ASALA and JCAG attacks and the Armenian genocide remain highly sensitive and controversial topics in Turkey,[10] and discussions of the events are often met with strong emotions and heated political debates.[11] Despite this, the attacks serve as a reminder of the ongoing tensions and historical wounds that continue to affect Armenian-Turkish relations to this day.[12]

Ahmet Benler's Volkswagen

List of ambassadors edit

Ambassador Status Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref.
İsmail Erez Fully accredited Paris, France 24 October 1975 [13][14][15]
Daniş Tunalıgil Fully accredited Vienna, Austria 27 October 1975 [16]
Taha Carım Fully accredited Vatican City 9 June 1977 [17]
Beşir Balcıoğlu Not active Madrid, Spain 2 June 1978 [18]
Galip Balkar Fully accredited Belgrade, Serbia 9 March 1983 [19]

List of high-ranking diplomats edit

Diplomat Title Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref.
Mehmet Baydar Consul general Santa Barbara, California 27 January 1973 [8]
Bahadır Demir Consul
Oktar Cirit First secretary Beirut, Lebanon 16 February 1976 [20][21]
Şarık Arıyak Consul general Sydney, Australia 17 December 1980 [22][23][24]
Kemal Arıkan Consul general Los Angeles, California 28 January 1982
Orhan Gündüz Honorary consul general Los Angeles, California 4 May 1982

List of security officials edit

Individual Military rank Title Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref.
Talip Yener N/A Driver Paris, France 24 October 1975 [25]
Engin Sever N/A Security attaché Sydney, Australia 17 December 1980 [22][23][24]
Cemal Özen N/A Security attaché Paris, France 24 September 1981
Atilla Altıkat Air Force Colonel Military attaché Ottawa, Canada 27 August 1982 [26]

List of general staff edit

Diplomat Title Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref.
Yılmaz Çolpan Tourism counsellor Paris, France 22 December 1979 [27]
Galip Özmen Administrative attaché Athens, Greece 31 July 1980 [28][29][30]
Reşat Moralı Labour attaché Paris, France 4 March 1981
Tecelli Arı Religion officer Paris, France
Mehmet Savaş Yergüç Secretary Geneva, Switzerland 9 June 1981
Erkut Akbay Administrative attaché Lisbon, Portugal 7 June 1982 [31]
Bora Süelkan Administrative attaché Burgas, Bulgaria 9 September 1982
Dursun Aksoy Administrative attaché Brussels, Belgium 14 July 1983 [32][33][34]
Erdoğan Özen Labour attaché Vienna, Austria 20 June 1984
Evner Ergun United Nations officer Vienna, Austria 19 November 1984

List of family members edit

Individual Relation Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref.
Necla Kuneralp Spouse of incumbent ambassador Madrid, Spain 2 June 1978 [18]
Ahmet Benler Son of incumbent ambassador The Hague, Netherlands 12 October 1979 [35]
Neslihan Özmen Daughter of incumbent administrative attaché Athens, Greece 31 July 1980 [28][29][30]
Nadide Akbay Spouse of incumbent administrative attaché Lisbon, Portugal 11 January 1983 [36]
Cahide Mıhçıoğlu Spouse of incumbent charge d'affaires Lisbon, Portugal 27 July 1983 [37]
Işık Yönder Spouse of a secretary Tehran, Iran 28 April 1984 [38]

Further reading edit

  • Peterson, Merrill D. (2004). "Starving Armenians" : America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and after. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-2267-4. OCLC 52901294.
  • Howard, Douglas A. (2001). The history of Turkey. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-313-00240-1. OCLC 50321768.
  • Singer, Amy; Neumann, Christoph K.; Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2011). Untold histories of the Middle East : recovering voices from the 19th and 20th centuries. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-203-84536-3. OCLC 658189067.
  • Hoffman, Bruce (2017). Inside terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-231-17476-3. OCLC 971893153.
  • Jessup, John E. (1998). An encyclopedic dictionary of conflict and conflict resolution, 1945-1996. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 39. ISBN 0-313-04676-X. OCLC 57582519.
  • Wieviorka, Michel (1993). The making of terrorism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 256. ISBN 0-226-89650-1. OCLC 28111107.
  • Göçek, Fatma Müge (2011). The transformation of Turkey : redefining state and society from the Ottoman Empire to the modern era. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-85771-968-3. OCLC 740225800.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Francis P. Hyland, Armenian Terrorism: the Past, the Present, the Prospects, Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, pp. 61–62;
  2. ^ Gaïdz Minassian, Guerre et terrorisme arméniens, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2002, pp. 32–34 and 106–109.
  3. ^ . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 21 September 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Fortier, Donald. "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections, Collection: "Fortier, Donald: Files," Folder Title: "Turkish Armenian File: [US Department of State Remarks on the Armenian Genocide]," Box: RAC Box 19" (PDF). Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. pp. 8–10, 42. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  6. ^ United States Department of State. Patterns of Global Terrorism Report: 1989 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine, p 57
  7. ^ Michel Wieviorka, David Gordon White. The making of terrorism. University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-89650-1, ISBN 978-0-226-89650-2, p. 256
  8. ^ a b "Beaver County Times - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  9. ^ von John E. Jessup (1998). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 39–40, 543, 841. ISBN 0-313-28112-2.
  10. ^ Rubin, Barry M.; Rubin, Judith Colp (2008). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-2206-8.
  11. ^ Gottschlich, Jürgen (2015). Beihilfe zum Völkermord: Deutschlands Rolle bei der Vernichtung der Armenier (in German). Ch. Links Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86153-817-2.
  12. ^ Morris, Benny (2019). The thirty-year genocide : Turkey's destruction of its Christian minorities, 1894-1924. Dror Zeʼevi. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-674-91645-6. OCLC 1044768992.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ . UMD Global Terrorism Database. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Armenians Web Portal". from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  15. ^ "Observer Reporter". 25 October 1975. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  16. ^ Cindy, C. Combs; W. Slann, Martin (2007). "Encyclopedia of Terrorism". Infobase Publishing: 394. ISBN 978-1-4381-1019-6.
  17. ^ . UMD Global Terrorism Database. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  18. ^ a b . UMD Global Terrorism Database. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  19. ^ Terrorist Group Profiles. ISBN 1-56806-864-6. August 1989, p. 53
  20. ^ "Turkey remembers diplomat killed in Beirut in 1976 - Turkey News". Hürriyet Daily News. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  21. ^ Şehit Diplomatlarımız (1973-1994). Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi. 2000. ISBN 975-494-924-7.
  22. ^ a b "Assassination of Turkish Consul-General and his bodyguard - NSW Police Public Site". police.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  23. ^ a b Molloy, Roger Collier, Paul Molloy and Susan (13 August 2020). "From the Archives, 1980: Political murder in a quiet Sydney street". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ a b Cormack, Lucy (13 August 2020). "'Calculated act of terror:' Police divers find clues in 40-year-old assassination mystery". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  25. ^ Barry Rubin, Barry M. Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin, "Chronologies of modern terrorism 2016-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, M.E. Sharpe, 2008, p. 69
  26. ^ . Hürriyet Daily News. 21 September 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  27. ^ . UMD Global Terrorism Database. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  28. ^ a b "Turkish Envoy Is Slain in Athens". The New York Times. 1 August 1980. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  29. ^ a b "Turk killed in Greece The Spokesman Review - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  30. ^ a b Melkonian, Markar (2008). My Brother's Road: an American's Fateful Journey to Armenia. I.B. Tauris & Company, Limited. pp. 84–85. ISBN 1-84511-530-9.
  31. ^ "AROUND THE WORLD; Turkish Envoy in Lisbon Is Killed by Gunman". The New York Times. Reuters. 8 June 1982. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  32. ^ Upi (15 July 1983). "AROUND THE WORLD; Turk Slain in Brussels; Armenians Claim Deed". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  33. ^ "The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  34. ^ "Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  35. ^ . UMD Global Terrorism Database. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  36. ^ Ap (11 January 1983). "Turk Wounded in June Attack By Armenian Terrorists Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  37. ^ "Ermeni terör örgütleri 31 Türk diplomat ve yakınını şehit etti". www.trthaber.com (in Turkish). 22 October 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  38. ^ "Zonguldaklı ASALA Şehidi". Zonguldak Pusula Son Dakika Haberleri (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 March 2023.

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This is a list of Turkish diplomats and other officials assassinated by Armenian militant organisations The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA and Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide JCAG were Armenian nationalist militant groups 1 that targeted Turkish diplomats and officials in Europe the Middle East and North America in a series of bombings shootings and other attacks 2 The group aimed to draw international attention to the Armenian genocide and to pressure Turkey to acknowledge the killings as a genocide 3 The attacks resulted in the deaths of dozens of people including Turkish diplomats embassy staff and bystanders and injured many more 4 The group s actions were widely condemned by the international community including the Reagan administration that labelled the assassinations as terrorism 5 6 7 In the following years the international community s response led to a wave of arrests and extraditions of ASALA members 8 9 The ASALA and JCAG attacks and the Armenian genocide remain highly sensitive and controversial topics in Turkey 10 and discussions of the events are often met with strong emotions and heated political debates 11 Despite this the attacks serve as a reminder of the ongoing tensions and historical wounds that continue to affect Armenian Turkish relations to this day 12 Ahmet Benler s Volkswagen Contents 1 List of ambassadors 2 List of high ranking diplomats 3 List of security officials 4 List of general staff 5 List of family members 6 Further reading 7 See also 8 ReferencesList of ambassadors editAmbassador Status Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref Ismail Erez Fully accredited Paris France 24 October 1975 13 14 15 Danis Tunaligil Fully accredited Vienna Austria 27 October 1975 16 Taha Carim Fully accredited Vatican City 9 June 1977 17 Besir Balcioglu Not active Madrid Spain 2 June 1978 18 Galip Balkar Fully accredited Belgrade Serbia 9 March 1983 19 List of high ranking diplomats editDiplomat Title Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref Mehmet Baydar Consul general Santa Barbara California 27 January 1973 8 Bahadir Demir Consul Oktar Cirit First secretary Beirut Lebanon 16 February 1976 20 21 Sarik Ariyak Consul general Sydney Australia 17 December 1980 22 23 24 Kemal Arikan Consul general Los Angeles California 28 January 1982 Orhan Gunduz Honorary consul general Los Angeles California 4 May 1982List of security officials editIndividual Military rank Title Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref Talip Yener N A Driver Paris France 24 October 1975 25 Engin Sever N A Security attache Sydney Australia 17 December 1980 22 23 24 Cemal Ozen N A Security attache Paris France 24 September 1981 Atilla Altikat Air Force Colonel Military attache Ottawa Canada 27 August 1982 26 List of general staff editDiplomat Title Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref Yilmaz Colpan Tourism counsellor Paris France 22 December 1979 27 Galip Ozmen Administrative attache Athens Greece 31 July 1980 28 29 30 Resat Morali Labour attache Paris France 4 March 1981 Tecelli Ari Religion officer Paris France Mehmet Savas Yerguc Secretary Geneva Switzerland 9 June 1981 Erkut Akbay Administrative attache Lisbon Portugal 7 June 1982 31 Bora Suelkan Administrative attache Burgas Bulgaria 9 September 1982 Dursun Aksoy Administrative attache Brussels Belgium 14 July 1983 32 33 34 Erdogan Ozen Labour attache Vienna Austria 20 June 1984 Evner Ergun United Nations officer Vienna Austria 19 November 1984List of family members editIndividual Relation Diplomatic mission Assassination date Ref Necla Kuneralp Spouse of incumbent ambassador Madrid Spain 2 June 1978 18 Ahmet Benler Son of incumbent ambassador The Hague Netherlands 12 October 1979 35 Neslihan Ozmen Daughter of incumbent administrative attache Athens Greece 31 July 1980 28 29 30 Nadide Akbay Spouse of incumbent administrative attache Lisbon Portugal 11 January 1983 36 Cahide Mihcioglu Spouse of incumbent charge d affaires Lisbon Portugal 27 July 1983 37 Isik Yonder Spouse of a secretary Tehran Iran 28 April 1984 38 Further reading editPeterson Merrill D 2004 Starving Armenians America and the Armenian Genocide 1915 1930 and after Charlottesville University of Virginia Press ISBN 0 8139 2267 4 OCLC 52901294 Howard Douglas A 2001 The history of Turkey Westport Conn Greenwood Press p 161 ISBN 0 313 00240 1 OCLC 50321768 Singer Amy Neumann Christoph K Somel Selcuk Aksin 2011 Untold histories of the Middle East recovering voices from the 19th and 20th centuries Abingdon Oxon Routledge p 27 ISBN 978 0 203 84536 3 OCLC 658189067 Hoffman Bruce 2017 Inside terrorism New York Columbia University Press p 71 ISBN 978 0 231 17476 3 OCLC 971893153 Jessup John E 1998 An encyclopedic dictionary of conflict and conflict resolution 1945 1996 Westport Conn Greenwood Press p 39 ISBN 0 313 04676 X OCLC 57582519 Wieviorka Michel 1993 The making of terrorism Chicago University of Chicago Press p 256 ISBN 0 226 89650 1 OCLC 28111107 Gocek Fatma Muge 2011 The transformation of Turkey redefining state and society from the Ottoman Empire to the modern era London I B Tauris p 151 ISBN 978 0 85771 968 3 OCLC 740225800 See also editTurkish consulate attack in Paris Esenboga Airport attack 1983 Orly Airport attack List of attacks by ASALA List of attacks by JCAGReferences edit Francis P Hyland Armenian Terrorism the Past the Present the Prospects Boulder San Francisco Oxford Westview Press 1991 pp 61 62 Gaidz Minassian Guerre et terrorisme armeniens Paris Presses universitaires de France 2002 pp 32 34 and 106 109 Diplomat memorial stirs controversy Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 21 September 2012 Archived from the original on 1 March 2014 Retrieved 20 December 2014 Das Armenier Problem Behauptungen Tatsachen Archived from the original on 11 January 2012 Retrieved 22 January 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Fortier Donald Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections Collection Fortier Donald Files Folder Title Turkish Armenian File US Department of State Remarks on the Armenian Genocide Box RAC Box 19 PDF Ronald Reagan Presidential Library pp 8 10 42 Retrieved 16 December 2021 United States Department of State Patterns of Global Terrorism Report 1989 Archived 2014 02 19 at the Wayback Machine p 57 Michel Wieviorka David Gordon White The making of terrorism University of Chicago Press 1993 ISBN 0 226 89650 1 ISBN 978 0 226 89650 2 p 256 a b Beaver County Times Google News Archive Search news google com Retrieved 24 September 2021 von John E Jessup 1998 An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution 1945 1996 Bloomsbury Academic pp 39 40 543 841 ISBN 0 313 28112 2 Rubin Barry M Rubin Judith Colp 2008 Chronologies of Modern Terrorism M E Sharpe ISBN 978 0 7656 2206 8 Gottschlich Jurgen 2015 Beihilfe zum Volkermord Deutschlands Rolle bei der Vernichtung der Armenier in German Ch Links Verlag ISBN 978 3 86153 817 2 Morris Benny 2019 The thirty year genocide Turkey s destruction of its Christian minorities 1894 1924 Dror Zeʼevi Cambridge Massachusetts ISBN 978 0 674 91645 6 OCLC 1044768992 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Incident Summary for GTDID 197510220001 UMD Global Terrorism Database National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Archived from the original on 30 October 2018 Retrieved 30 October 2018 Armenians Web Portal Archived from the original on 21 May 2011 Retrieved 27 October 2010 Observer Reporter 25 October 1975 Retrieved 28 September 2012 Cindy C Combs W Slann Martin 2007 Encyclopedia of Terrorism Infobase Publishing 394 ISBN 978 1 4381 1019 6 Incident Summary for GTDID 197706090001 UMD Global Terrorism Database National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Archived from the original on 31 October 2018 Retrieved 31 October 2018 a b Incident Summary for GTDID 197806020002 UMD Global Terrorism Database National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Archived from the original on 31 October 2018 Retrieved 31 October 2018 Terrorist Group Profiles ISBN 1 56806 864 6 August 1989 p 53 Turkey remembers diplomat killed in Beirut in 1976 Turkey News Hurriyet Daily News 17 February 2020 Retrieved 24 September 2021 Sehit Diplomatlarimiz 1973 1994 Ankara Bilgi Yayinevi 2000 ISBN 975 494 924 7 a b Assassination of Turkish Consul General and his bodyguard NSW Police Public Site police nsw gov au Retrieved 24 September 2021 a b Molloy Roger Collier Paul Molloy and Susan 13 August 2020 From the Archives 1980 Political murder in a quiet Sydney street The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 24 September 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link a b Cormack Lucy 13 August 2020 Calculated act of terror Police divers find clues in 40 year old assassination mystery The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 24 September 2021 Barry Rubin Barry M Rubin Judith Colp Rubin Chronologies of modern terrorism Archived 2016 12 28 at the Wayback Machine M E Sharpe 2008 p 69 Monument honoring Turkish diplomat opens in Ottawa Hurriyet Daily News 21 September 2012 Archived from the original on 31 October 2018 Retrieved 20 December 2014 Incident Summary for GTDID 197912220006 UMD Global Terrorism Database National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Archived from the original on 31 October 2018 Retrieved 31 October 2018 a b Turkish Envoy Is Slain in Athens The New York Times 1 August 1980 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 24 September 2021 a b Turk killed in Greece The Spokesman Review Google News Archive Search news google com Retrieved 24 September 2021 a b Melkonian Markar 2008 My Brother s Road an American s Fateful Journey to Armenia I B Tauris amp Company Limited pp 84 85 ISBN 1 84511 530 9 AROUND THE WORLD Turkish Envoy in Lisbon Is Killed by Gunman The New York Times Reuters 8 June 1982 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 14 January 2022 Upi 15 July 1983 AROUND THE WORLD Turk Slain in Brussels Armenians Claim Deed The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 14 January 2022 The Montreal Gazette Google News Archive Search news google com Retrieved 14 January 2022 Sarasota Herald Tribune Google News Archive Search news google com Retrieved 14 January 2022 Incident Summary for GTDID 197910120003 UMD Global Terrorism Database National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism Archived from the original on 31 October 2018 Retrieved 31 October 2018 Ap 11 January 1983 Turk Wounded in June Attack By Armenian Terrorists Dies The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 14 January 2022 Ermeni teror orgutleri 31 Turk diplomat ve yakinini sehit etti www trthaber com in Turkish 22 October 2022 Retrieved 28 March 2023 Zonguldakli ASALA Sehidi Zonguldak Pusula Son Dakika Haberleri in Turkish Retrieved 28 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