Türkiye remembers diplomat, citizen killed by Armenian terror groups

By Diyar Guldogan

ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye on Tuesday commemorated its diplomat and citizen killed by an Armenian terror group in Paris in 1975.

"We remember with respect Ambassador Ismail Erez and his driver Talip Yener, martyred in a heinous attack by the Armenian terrorist organizations ASALA and JCAG in Paris on 24 October 1975," the Foreign Ministry said on X.

The attack was just one of the assassinations of Turkish diplomats and family members around the world by Armenian terror groups ASALA and JCAG.

Since the 1970s, Armenian terror groups have killed 31 Turkish diplomats and family members.

ASALA, founded in 1975, was the first Armenian terror group to wage war against Türkiye, and the JCAG was founded the same year in Beirut.

ASALA not only targeted Türkiye but also other countries and became infamous for a 1975 bomb attack on the Beirut office of the World Council of Churches.

The JCAG, which claimed that it only got support from the Armenian diaspora rather than foreign partners, only targeted Türkiye because it believed that attacking other countries would damage the so-called "Armenian struggle."