The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Friday remembered a diplomat who was gunned down by an Armenian terrorist on the road outdoors his dwelling in Brussels in 1983.
“We commemorate with respect our martyr Dursun Aksoy, Administrative Attache of the Embassy of Türkiye in Brussels, assassinated in a heinous attack by the Armenian terrorist organization ASALA on July 14, 1983,” the ministry stated on Twitter.
At 10.30 a.m. native time (0830GMT), as Aksoy was about to begin his automotive outdoors his dwelling, he was shot twice, within the neck and chest, by an Armenian terrorist. The 39-year-old Turkish diplomat died on the scene.
The assault was simply one of many assassinations of Turkish diplomats and members of the family world wide by Armenian terror teams ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia) and JCAG (Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide).
Since the Nineteen Seventies, Armenian terror teams have killed 31 Turkish diplomats and members of the family.
ASALA, based in 1975, was the primary Armenian terror group to wage warfare in opposition to Türkiye, and the JCAG was based the identical 12 months in Beirut.
ASALA not solely focused Türkiye but additionally different international locations and have become notorious for a 1975 bomb assault on the Beirut workplace of the World Council of Churches.
The JCAG, which claimed that it solely obtained help from the Armenian diaspora moderately than international companions, solely focused Türkiye as a result of it believed that attacking different international locations would injury the so-called “Armenian struggle.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
