Incident Date:
April 08, 1982 09:30
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
Event Type: Assassination
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Automatic Weapon (incl. semiauto))
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Diplomats/Families/Individuals (outside of embassy))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators: 3 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/08/1982: An Armenian nationalist group known as the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) attempted to assassinate Kani Gungor, the Turkish commercial attaché. A lone gunman shot Gungor twice as he entered his car in the parking lot of his apartment building at around 9:30 a.m. The lone gunman was using a Beretta automatic pistol. Gungor was severely paralyzed by the attack. Two days after the attack, the United Press International office in Los Angeles received a communiqué, with the ASALA claiming responsibility for the attack. On 04/23/1986, the Ontario Supreme Court sentenced three Armenian immigrants, who were all ASALA members, to nine, six, and two years respectively, on charges of conspiring to commit murder."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 186."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 10.
3) GTD 1970-2012 data file
4) RAND
5) "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. 101"
6) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler, and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume I 1980-1983. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 272."
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