Armenian guerillas hit envoy

Press, 19 April 1980, Page 9

Armenian guerillas hit envoy

NZPA-Reuter Rome |l Armenian urban guerrillas f have shot and wounded the j Turkish Ambassador to the (Vatican and his bodyguard iin a campaign to remind the( t, (world of a massacre of Ar-| (menians in Turkey in 1915. i ji Two young men stopped; r. the car of the ambassador,! „;Vecdi Turel, aged 62, as hej 4 jwas being driven to work. ; n ! They fired into the car, then fled. n The two victims were r taken to hospital where doce tors said Mr Turel had been e shot in the right shoulder - and chest and the guard was ” hit in the right cheek. They e were not in a serious condition. The “Justice Commandos - of the Armenian Genocide” t then telephoned Reuters in f Beirut to claim responsis bility, saying: “Our onlj’ aim ! i is to strike against Turkish ; personalities and Turkish in- ( stitutions all over the -world.” 11 Mr Turel’s predecessor, it Karim Tahah, was shot dead!! on a Rome Street in June,lf 1977. i The Armenians are aveng-'r ing one of the worst mass-la acres of modern times: the is killing of more than one it million men, women, andii children and the exiling of 5 ' many more in 1915. The Ar-! menians also want a separ-lj: ' ate State of their own|r carved out of the Armenian |c areas of . Turkey and the So-;( I viet Union. p I In other violence ySster- s day, Italian extremists set off bombs outside a police ii station, a Left-wing book- a , shop, and a suburban office b (of the Communist Party, b (causing considerable damage. I