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Orly Airport Bombing: ASALA's 1983 Attack on Turkish Airlines

On July 15, 1983, a devastating bombing targeted the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport in Paris, France, conducted by the Armenian militant group ASALA. The explosion claimed the lives of eight individuals, including four French, two Turkish, one American, and one Swedish, and injured 55 others. The bomb, involving Semtex and gas bottles, was mistakenly detonated on the baggage ramp rather than aboard a Turkish Airways flight. Varoujan Garabedian, a Syrian national of Armenian descent, was arrested and confessed to planting the bomb as part of ASALA's agenda for Armenian Genocide recognition.

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Orly Airport Bombing: ASALA's 1983 Attack on Turkish Airlines

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  1. The Orly Airport attack was the 15 July 1983 bombing of a Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport in Paris, France, by the Armenian militant organization ASALA as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian Genocide. [1] The explosion killed eight people and injured 55

  2. The bomb exploded inside a suitcase at the Turkish Airlines check-in desk in the airport's south terminal. Three people were killed immediately in the blast and another five died in hospital. Four of the victims were French, two were Turkish, one was American, and one was Swedish. The bomb consisted of a half kilo of Semtex explosive connected to three portable gas bottles ASALA claimed responsibility for the attack.

  3. French police detained 29-year old VaroujanGarabedian, a Syrian national of Armenian extraction, who confessed to planting the bomb at the airport. Garabedian claimed he was the head of the French branch of ASALA. At the airport, Garabedian said he had too much luggage and gave a passenger $65 to check the bag for him. The bomb was intended to explode aboard a Turkish Airways plane en route from Paris to Istanbul, but it detonated prematurely on a baggage ramp

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