The chain of politically motivated acts of assassination (including those attempted or seriously planned) that have been committed by different Armenian nationalist can be divided into two waves, the first wave starting in the aftermath of the emergence of Hunchak and Dashnak movements and ending in the 1930's with Archbishop Elisha Tourian's murder, and the second wave starting in the 1970's.

See also

Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1915

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List of terrorist acts committed by Armenian nationalists
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|Nationality/Origin
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|Date&place of the criminal act
|Nature of the criminal act&notes

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|American/Armenian
|1. Archbishop Elishe Tourian, prelate of Armenian Church of America, linguist, author
|24 December 1933, New York
|Surrounded and brutally stabbed by a Dashnak assassination team in front of his parishioners during the Christmas Eve service [318]. The assassination was the consequence of the disagreement and the conflict between Armenian political parties —Dashnaks, Ramgavars, Hunchaks —over acceptance of the Soviet-dominated Armenian SSR. Nine local Dashnaks were soon convicted of his murder. Armenians ousted all Dashnaks from their Church, forcing these thousands to form their own parallel Church structure. To this day, there continues to be two doctrinally identical yet structurally independent Armenian Church bodies in America, the original Diocese and the later Prelacy. As of 1995, efforts continue to reunite them.

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|American
|2. Stanford Shaw, historian, Turkish history professor at U.C.L.A., one of the signatories of 69 U.S. Scholars Petition to U.S. Congress on Armenian Genocide theses
|3 October 1977, Los Angeles
|Attempted assassination. Armenian bullies threw a bomb, and blew up the front portion of his house. He and his family had to leave the campus under a death threat. [319]

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|Azerbaijani Turkish
|3. Behbud Han Jevanshir, petroleum engineer, Minister of Interior Affairs of Azerbaijan between 1918-1920 (until the Soviet Red Army's invasion of Baku), organizer of pogroms according to Armenian sources.
|18 July 1921, İstanbul, in front of the famed Pera Palace Hotel.
|Assassinated by the Armenian hitman Missak Minakian who has been arrested, tried by a British Occupation Court Martial in circumstances described in Murat Çulcu's 1990 book "Torlakyan Davası (Torlakian case)", brought within reach of a condemnation through the efforts of Jevanshir's brother, but acquitted and ushered out of Turkey. Torlakian went to the U.S. later and is considered a hero according to some Armenian sources [320]
[321].
Jevanshir's brother married the daughter of the lawyer he had hired for the case. Their son Behbud Cevanşir became a prominent otolaryngologist and a tennis champion in Turkey and a long-time president of Turkey's TED (Tennis-Fencing-Alpinism) sports club till his death in 1999 [322].

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|Ottoman Armenian
|4. Haçik Efendi, lawyer
|1890
|Killed by an 15-year old Armenian adolescent named Armenag. Was suspected of opposing the Kumkapı Demonstration and siding with the Ottoman authorities.

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|Ottoman Armenian
|5. Dajad Vartaped, İstanbul
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|Preacher in Gedikpaşa Armenian church in İstanbul.

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|Ottoman Armenian
|6. Mampre Vartaped, İstanbul
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|Attempted assassination.

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|Ottoman Armenian
|7. Ashikian, Armenian Archbishop of İstanbul
|28 March 1894, İstanbul
|Attempted assassination.

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|Ottoman Armenian
|8. Simon Maksut, close friend of Archbishop Ashikian, rich banker and contactor
|10 May 1894, İstanbul
|Attempted assassination

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|Ottoman Armenian
|9. Bedros Kapamacıyan, moderate mayor of Van
|10 December 1912, Van
|Assassinated by a Tashnak team seven of which have been arrested shortly after the assassination.

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