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Orhan Gündüz Assassination
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Orhan Gündüz, the Turkish Honorary Consul General in Boston is assassinated in Somerville (Cambridge, Massachusetts) on 4 May 1982. Mr. Gündüz was waiting in his automobile in rush-hour traffic when the gunman attacked him. The murderer is still at large. Gündüz’s gift shop in Boston, had been blown up on 22 March 1982 in which JCAG terrorists threatened that Mr. Gündüz either resign as a Honorary Consul or be ‘executed’. The Armenian JCAG claims responsibility for the Assassination. Local television and newspapers utilized a composite drawing based on information provided by a witness. When the witness was subsequently gunned-down, all community efforts to help apprehend the assassin came to a halt. The Somerville Police Department and FBI were never able to apprehend the assassin.
This entry is part of the Encylopedia of Armenians, which is supported by the TÃœBÄ°TAK
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