ANKARA
Turkey on Saturday remembered one of its ambassadors who was killed in a terrorist attack in Vienna in 1975.
“We respect Ambassador Danis Tunaligil, martyred in the heinous attack of the Armenian terrorist organizations ASALA and JCAG in Vienna on October 22, 1975,” the Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.
Since the 1970s, Armenian terrorist teams have murdered 31 Turkish diplomats and members of their circle of relatives.
The vast majority of the attacks were carried out through two terrorist groups, the so-called “Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia” (ASALA) and the so-called “Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos” (JCAG).
ASALA, founded in 1975, the first Armenian terrorist organization to wage war against Turkey, and JCAG founded the same year in Beirut.
ASALA not only targeted Turkey, but other countries as well, and has become notorious for a 1975 bombing of the World Council of Churches’ Beirut.
Claiming to have won only from the Armenian diaspora rather than foreign partners, the JCAG targeted Turkey only because it believed that attacking other countries would harm the so-called “Armenian struggle. “
He first gained notoriety by claiming his duty for the murder of Tunaligil.