Remember the fallen Turkish Diplomats.
January 27th will mark 44 years since the ion of the Turkish Consul General in Los Angeles, Mehmet Baydar, and the Vice Consul, Bahadir Demir, by an Armenian-American extremist, Gourgen Yanikian.
His simultaneous public call to kill Turks resulted in numerous terrorist attacks against Turkish diplomats and civilians between 1975 and 1991. Influenced by Yanikian’s appeal, on January 28, 1982, Harry (Hampig) Sassounian, murdered another Turkish Consul General, Kemal Arikan, in Los Angeles.
Fallen Turkish Diplomats in Los Angeles
