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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 that targeted Turkish diplomats and officials in Europe, the Middle East, and North America in a series of bombings, shootings, and other attacks. The group aimed to draw international attention to the Armenian genocide and to pressure Turkey to acknowledge the killings as a genocide. The attacks resulted in the deaths of dozens of people, including Turkish diplomats, embassy staff, and bystanders, and injured many more. The group's actions were widely condemned by the international community including the Reagan administration that labelled the assassinations as terrorism. In the following years, the international community's response led to a wave of arrests and extraditions of ASALA members. The ASALA and JCAG attacks and the Armenian genocide remain highly sensitive and controversial topics in Turkey, and discussions of the events are often met with strong emotions and heated political debates. 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.

List of ambassadors

List of high-ranking diplomats

List of security officials

List of general staff

List of family members

Further reading

• 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

• Turkish consulate attack in Paris
• Esenboğa Airport attack
• 1983 Orly Airport attack
• List of attacks by ASALA
• List of attacks by JCAG

References

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