TURKS CALL FOR JUSTICE IN KILLING
By Jorge Barrera

Ottawa Sun, Canada
Aug. 28, 2006

Attache’s slaying unsolved after 25 years

He doesn’t want his last name published, fearing Armenian terrorists
will get him this time.

Ercan was a young teenager when three armed men calling themselves
Armenian revolutionaries stormed the Turkish embassy in Ottawa,
killed a guard and blasted their way into the building with explosives.

They were after the Turkish ambassador, who tried to jump out
a window to escape. The men grabbed the ambassador’s daughter and
Ercan’s 11-year-old sister instead. They held them for more than five
hours. It was March 12, 1985.

SECRET HIDEOUT

Ercan’s mother burst into his room and took him to a secret hideout
inside the embassy compound, where the family was living while working
for the Turkish government’s department of external affairs.

"How would you feel if someone holds a gun against your family member
and you question whether she is going to live or not going to live?"

says Ercan, who is now 36. "It leaves a horrible memory in your mind."

Ercan’s leather jacket is soaked, his wet black hair flat against
his head. He has been hanging signs that read "murderers are still
on the loose" and "condemn don’t justify" at the corner of the Ottawa
River Pkwy. and Island Park Dr.

10 BULLETS FIRED

There, on Aug. 27, 1982, a man carrying a 9-mm Browning handgun walked
up to Col. Atilla Altikat, Turkish military attache for Canada, who
was stopped at the lights going east on the parkway. The man fired
10 bullets into Altikat’s body in the midst of the morning rush hour.

RCMP have never caught the killer.

Ercan and several members of the Turkish community held a rally on
the parkway yesterday to remember the murder and call for justice.

"We want them to find who did this and put them in jail," said Yalcin
Diker, 46.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress