List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations

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]

^ Francis P. Hyland, Armenian Terrorism: the Past, the Present, the Prospects, Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, pp. 61–62;
^ Gaïdz Minassian, Guerre et terrorisme arméniens, 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.{{cite web}}: 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
^ "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, Jürgen (2015). Beihilfe zum Völkermord: 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[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] "Diplomat memorial stirs controversy". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 21 September 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.

[4] "Das Armenier-Problem, Behauptungen – Tatsachen". 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.

[:2-6] United States Department of State. Patterns of Global Terrorism Report: 1989 Archived 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

[:0-8] "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)

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