Incident Date:
March 27, 1972
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unye Turkey
Perpetrators: Turkish Peoples Liberation Army (TPLA)
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Military(North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Related)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 3 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 5 involved, 10 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "03/27/1972: Five members of the Turkish People's Liberation Army (TPLA) stormed an apartment in Kizeldere and kidnapped three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) radar technicians. They held the NATO technicians in a hut, demanding the release of three terrorists who had been sentenced to death for kidnapping four Americans. The NATO technicians had been employed at a Turkish air force radar base at Unye. The government refused to negotiate or to grant the terrorists' subsequent demand for safe passage out of Turkey. On March 30, police raided the terrorists' shack in Kizildere, a village 60 miles south of Unye on the Black Sea. The terrorists shot the hostages in the head. The Police ultimately killed the ten terrorists. "
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 306-307."
2) RAND
3) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 145"
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