Danis_Tunaligil

Daniş Tunalıgil

Daniş Tunalıgil

Turkish diplomat

Hüseyin Daniş Tunalıgil (1915 – 22 October 1975) was a Turkish diplomat. He was assassinated by JCAG in 1975 during his duty as the Turkish ambassador to Austria.[1]

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Life and career

Tunalıgil was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1915. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1933.[2] In 1939, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his diplomatic career he had been ambassador of Turkey to Jordan, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands and finally Austria.

Assassination

At noon, on 22 October 1975, three gunmen bearing automatic weapons ambushed the Turkish Embassy in Vienna, killing the security guards and entering the Ambassador's office. Once face to face with the ambassador, the militants asked if he was the Turkish ambassador. Receiving an affirmative answer, they shot him with British and Israeli made submachine guns.[3] Tunalıgil died on the spot and the militants quickly left the scene by an automobile.[4]

The attack was followed by another planned attack against the ambassador of Turkey to France, Ismail Erez on October 24, 1975 killing him and his chauffeur.[5]

The 3 militants were never identified and caught.[6][7] It was the first assassination perpetrated by JCAG, and by 1984 it would have claimed the lives of 20 Turkish diplomats and members of their immediate families.[8]

An ornamental tablet in commemoration of Tunalıgil in front of the Turkish Embassy in Vienna

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Newspaper Milliyet October 22, 2004 Archived June 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
  2. [2]
    Oku July 4, 2007[permanent dead link] (in Turkish)
  3. [3]
    Lester A. Sobel, "Political terrorism, Volume 2, University of Michigan, Facts on File, 1978, p. 248
  4. [4]
    "TURKISH DIPLOMATS KILLED BY THE ARMENIAN TERRORISTS DURING THEIR DUTY". Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
  5. [5]
    Guerre et terrorisme arméniens, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2002, p. 44
  6. [6]
    Encyclopedia of terrorism Archived 2014-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Infobase Publishing, 2007, Cindy C. Combs, Martin W. Slann, p. 394]
  7. [7]
    Michael M. Gunter, "Pursuing the Just Cause of their People. A Study of Contemporary Armenian Terrorism, Westport-New York-London, Greenwood Press, 1986, p. 68
  8. [8]
    Baron Max, Beloff Beloff, "Beyond the Soviet Union: the fragmentation of power, Ashgate, 1997, p. 42
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