ASALA Resurrected?

M.A.M <[email protected]>

Armenian terrorist organization ASALA [1] reiterated its claim of land against Turkey. Issuing a statement through Armenian news agencies for the 95th anniversary of so called Armenian genocide, Armenian terrorist organization ASALA which assassinated 47 Turkish diplomats, reiterated its claim of land against Turkey. Terrorist organization stated that “the lands that belong to Armenians” should be liberated.

In the written statement, Armenian terrorist organization said, “Following our powerfull attacks, Turkish state run into panic and had to reshape its ignoring policy against Armenians.”

Claiming that Eastern Turkey is the home of Armenians since 1000 years, ASALA called Armenians to continue struggle for liberation of “Armenian territory” and recognition of so called Armenian genocide.
The statement also called Yerevan administration to follow an appropriate policy with the diaspora. ASALA’s statement read, “The concrete phase of the struggle for liberation of Western Armenia started 35 years ago. We initiated a new method of struggle in 1975. Turkish state run into panic following our unexpected, harsh and powerful attacks and they had to reshape their ignoring policy against Armenians. The children of the people who were massacred, started to speak Turkey in the language of force. Therefore, whole world community witnessed what Armenian people experiences and what do they claim.”

[1] The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a Marxist-Leninist militant[4] organization, that operated from 1975 to 1986.

In 1973 Los Angeles Turkish Consul General, Mehmet Baydar, and Vice Consul, Bahadir Demir, were assassinated in Los Angeles by Gourgen Yanikian[*], after inviting the Turkish diplomats to his hotel suite to present the Turkish Government with a “gift.” Behind this act of revenge lay a national reawakening among the scattered Armenians in the world, which had begun in the end of the 1960s and early 1970s. This event might have been progressively forgotten, had it not initiated a chain of events which turned it, and its perpetrator, into a symbol. ASALA was founded in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War by Hagop Hagopian (Harutiun Tagushian), pastor Rev. James Karnusian and Kevork Ajemian, a prominent contemporary writer, with the help of sympathetic Palestinians.[13] At the beginning, ASALA bore the name of “The Prisoner Kurken Yanikian Group”. Consisting primarily of Lebanese-born Armenians of the Diaspora, the organization followed a theoretical model based on leftist ideology.

[*] Gourgen Migirdic Yanikian, (b. December 24, 1895, Erzurum, Ottoman Turkey- d. March 27, 1984, USA) The Armenian author and engineer was sentenced to life in prison in July 1973 and died in prison of natural causes.

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Posted By M.A.M to Mavi Boncuk at 4/28/2010 05:03:00 PM