List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations

This is a list of Turkish diplomats killed by Armenian militant organisations.[1][2][3][4][5] The list includes familiars of diplomats as well as local or international staff members killed as a result of direct attacks or as collateral damage victims of the attacks directed against Turkish diplomats.[6] [7] The attacks that are listed here begin with the assassination of Mehmet Baydar, Turkish Consul General to Los Angeles and Bahadır Demir, Consul at the same Consulate General.[8] Although the attacks against Turkish diplomats begin with these assassinations in 1973 by an individual perpetrator, Kourken Yanigian, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) has assumed – or in some cases accused of – the responsibility of attacks against Turkish diplomats and other Turkish objectives in 16 countries between 1975 and 1983.[9][10][11]

Targets

  • Mehmet Baydar, Santa Barbara, California, Consul General, 27 January 1973[12]
  • Bahadır Demir, Consul, Santa Barbara, California, 27 January 1973
  • Kemal Arikan, killed 28 January 1982 in Los Angeles by JCAG members Hampig Sassounian and an accomplice.
  • Daniş Tunalıgil, Vienna, Ambassador, 27 October 1975[13]
  • İsmail Erez, Paris, Ambassador, 24 October 1975.[14]
  • Talip Yener, Driver, Paris, 24 October 1975
  • Oktar Cirit, First Secretary of the Turkish Embassy, Beirut, 16 February 1976
  • Taha Carım, Vatican City, Ambassador, 9 June 1977.[15]
  • Necla Kuneralp, Madrid, Wife of Turkish Ambassador to Madrid, Zeki Kuneralp, 2 June 1978 [16]
  • Beşir Balcıoğlu, Madrid, Retired Ambassador, brother of Ms Kuneralp 2 June 1978 [17]
  • Ahmet Benler, The Hague, Ambassador's Son, 12 October 1979 [18]
  • Yılmaz Çolpan, Paris, Tourism Counsellor, 22 December 1979.[19]
  • Galip Özmen, Athens, Attaché, 31 July 1980
  • Neslihan Özmen, Athens, Daughter of Attaché Özmen, 31 July 1980
  • Şarık Arıyak, Sydney, Consul General, 17 December 1980
  • Engin Sever, Attaché, 17 December 1980
  • Reşat Moralı, Paris, Labour Attaché, 4 March 1981
  • Tecelli Arı, Religion Officer, 4 March 1981
  • M. Savaş Yergüç, Geneva, Local Secretary, 9 June 1981
  • Cemal Özen, Paris, Attaché, 24 September 1981[20]
  • Orhan Gündüz, Boston, Honorary Consul General, 4 May 1982
  • Erkut Akbay, Lisbon, Administrative Attaché, 7 June 1982
  • Atilla Altıkat, Ottawa, Colonel, Military Attaché, 27 August 1982[21]
  • Bora Süelkan, Burgas, Administrative Attaché, 9 September 1982
  • Nadide Akbay, Lisbon, Administrative Attaché's Wife, 8 January 1983
  • Galip Balkar, Belgrade, Ambassador, 9 March 1983[22]
  • Dursun Aksoy, Brussels, Administrative Attaché, 14 July 1983
  • Cahide Mıhçıoğlu, Lisbon, Wife of the Counselor, 27 July 1983
  • Işık Yönder, Tehran, Wife of Local Secretary, 28 April 1984
  • Erdoğan Özen, Vienna, Labour Attaché, 20 June 1984
  • Evner Ergun, Vienna, International Officer, 19 November 1984
  • Çetin Görgü, Athens, Press Attaché, 7 October 1991
  • Çağlar Yücel, Baghdad, Attaché, 11 December 1993
  • Haluk Sipahioğlu, Counselor of the Turkish Embassy, Athens, 4 July 1994

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nicholas V. Gianaris (1996). Geopolitical and Economic Changes in the Balkan Countries. Praeger Publishers. p. 75.
  2. ↑ Francis P. Hyland, Armenian Terrorism: the Past, the Present, the Prospects, Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, pp. 61–62;
  3. ↑ Yves Ternon, La Cause arménienne, Paris: Le Seuil, 1983, p. 218;
  4. ↑ The Armenian Reporter, 19 January 1984, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Gaïdz Minassian, Guerre et terrorisme arméniens, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2002, pp. 32–34 and 106–109.
  6. ↑ "Diplomat memorial stirs controversy". 21 September 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Rep. of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs". Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Ataa.org: Turkish Diplomats Killed by Armenian Terrorists
  9. ↑ von John E. Jessup (1998). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996. p. 39-40, 543, 841. ISBN 0-313-28112-2.
  10. ↑ Merrill D. Peterson (2004). "Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1930 and After. p. 166. ISBN 978-0813922676.
  11. ↑ Barry Rubin, Barry M. Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin, "Chronologies of modern terrorism, M.E. Sharpe, 2008, p. 68
  12. ↑ "TURKISH DIPLOMATS KILLED BY ARMENIAN TERRORISTS - FORSNET". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Turkish Diplomats Killed By Armenian Terrorists". YouTube. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  14. ↑ Global Terrorism Database; Gaïdz Minassian, ibid.; Michael M. Gunter, ibid.
  15. ↑ Global Terrorism Database; Michael M. Gunter, ibid.
  16. ↑ Global Terrorism Database; Michael M. Gunter, ibid.
  17. ↑ Global Terrorism Database; Michael M. Gunter, ibid.
  18. ↑ Global Terrorism Database; Michael M. Gunter, ibid.
  19. ↑ Global Terrorism Database; Michael M. Gunter, ibid.
  20. ↑ Armenian Terrorism in the 20th Century by Michael M. Gunter. Accessed 16 June 2009. Archived 19 June 2009.
  21. ↑ "Monument honoring Turkish diplomat opens in Ottawa". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  22. ↑ Terrorist Group Profiles. ISBN 1-56806-864-6. August 1989, p. 53