The Association of Young Turks held a demonstration on Saturday at New York’s Times Square to protest the killings of Turkish diplomats by The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), a terrorist organization.The Protestors were seen shouting slogans and holding banners and flags against the terrorist organization for murdering 46 and injuring 299 as a result of attacks and assassinations aimed at Turkish Diplomats in the past.
Seeking to reestablish historical Armenia that would include eastern Turkey and the Soviet Armenia, the stated intention of ASALA was "to compel the Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, pay reparations, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland."
The group received considerable clandestine support from Armenian Diaspora in Europe and in the USA.
Suffering from internal schisms, the group was relatively inactive in the 1990s, although in 1991 it claimed an unsuccessful attack on the Turkish ambassador to Hungary. The organization has not engaged in militant activity since then. (Cihan)
