Gourgen Mkrtich Yanikian ( Armenian : Գուրգեն Մկրտիչ Եանիկեան , December 24 , 1895 - February 29 , 1984 ) was an Armenian American author , engineer and an Armenian Genocide survivor , best known for the assassination of two Turkish consular officials ( Los Angeles Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Consul Bahadır Demir ) in California in 1973 .
Gourgen Yanikian ( Armenian : Գուրգեն Յանիկյան , December 24 , 1895 , Erzurum , Ottoman Armenia - March 27 , 1984 , USA ) was an Armenian author and engineer who killed two Turkish consular officials in California in 1973 .