Türkiye on Monday commemorated considered one of its diplomats and his daughter who had been assassinated by an Armenian terrorist group in 1980.
“We commemorate with respect our martyrs, Administrative Attaché of the Turkish Embassy in Athens Galip Özmen and his daughter Neslihan Özmen, assassinated by the Armenian terrorist organization ASALA on July 31, 1980,” the Foreign Ministry mentioned on Twitter.
Özmen was assassinated alongside together with his 14-year-old daughter, whereas his spouse, Sevil Özmen, and his 16-year-old son, Kaan Özmen, had been additionally severely injured however managed to outlive.
Founded in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon, throughout the Lebanese Civil War, the ASALA is answerable for a whole bunch of bloody terror acts.
During the 1975-1984 interval, Turkish ambassadors and diplomats had been focused all over the world by Armenian terrorist teams.
ASALA assassinated over 30 Turkish diplomats and officers in numerous assaults throughout that decade. The Armenian terrorist acts intensified from 1980 to 1983, when 580 of the 699 assaults occurred. The terrorist assaults led to 1986.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
