The assassination of Mehmet Baydar and Bahadır Demir refers to the murder of the Turkish

Turkey

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 Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Consul

Consul

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 Bahadır Demir in California

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 on 27 January 1973. They were murdered by an Armenian-American Gourgen Yanikian

Gourgen Yanikian

Gourgen Mkrtich Yanikian was an American-Armenian author, engineer and an Armenian Genocide survivor, who assassinated two Turkish consular officials in California in 1973....

, who invited the Turkish diplomats to lunch and shot them dead when they showed up. This was the first in a series of Armenian militant attacks against Turkish diplomats all over the world.

Yanikian was sentenced to life in prison in July 1973 for first-degree murder. He died in prison of natural causes at age 88.