STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001101660059-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: July 28, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release July 28, 1983
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Yesterday's attack in Lisbon on the residence of the Turkish
ambassador to Portugal was only the latest in a series of brutal
and increasingly indiscriminate terrorist attacks against Turkish
diplomats and. other innocent civilians. In yesterday's attack,
for which the Revolutionary Armenian Army claims responsibility,
the wife of a senior Turkish diplomat was killed and a young
child was seriously wounded. Only two weeks earlier, a Turkish
diplomat was murdered outside his home in Brussels, and one day
later seven other individuals were killed as they waited to board
a Turkish airliner in Paris. No real or imagined grievance could
possibly justify these modern day horrors.
On behalf of the people and government of the United States, I
extend the deepest sympathy to the Turkish government and to the
families of the victims of this attack. But more than sympathy
is required. This senseless violence must cease. To that end, I
will be speaking to other heads of state in the days ahead
regarding urgent and more effective cooperative measures to
eliminate from the civilized community such barbaric and inhuman
acts.
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