List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
This is a list of Turkish diplomats killed by Armenian militant organisations. The list includes families of diplomats as well as staff members killed as a result of attacks directed against Turkish diplomats. The attacks that are listed here begin with the assassination of Mehmet Baydar, Turkish Consul General to Los Angeles and Bahadır Demir, Consul at the same Consulate General. Although the attacks against Turkish diplomats began with these assassinations in 1973 by an individual perpetrator, Kourken Yanigian, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and Justice  Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG) have assumed or been accused of the responsibility of attacks against Turkish diplomats and other Turkish interests in 16 countries between 1975 and 1984. The U.S. Department of State, under President Ronald Reagan — as well as the militants themselves — attribute the assassinations to Turkey's open denial of the Armenian genocide. ASALA itself and other sources described it as a guerilla and armed organisation. Some sources, including the Azerbaijani and American departments of state, as well as the Turkish Department of Culture, listed it as a terrorist organisation. List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by