By Forsnet ( http://www.armenianterror.com )

ORGANIZATION HEADQUARTERS:BEIRUT/LEBANON

FOUNDATION DATE: January 20th,

1975 POLITICAL VİEW: Supporter of the Hincak party, in line with Marxism-Leninism

ORGANIZATION LEADER: Bedros HAUANASSIAN

NICKNAMES: Mihran MIHRANIANAGOP,HAGOPIAN

ASALA which has proclaimed itself with the bomb attack to the office of world churches union in Beirut, January 20th, 1975, acknowledging itself as a part of the international revolutionary act, counts Turkey and its allies as an arch enemy and defends the idea that the Armenian claim can only be solved by armed struggle.

Moreover, this organization which is thought to be in relation with the pro-Soviet Hincak party states to the public in various ways that their militants are in cooperation with the Palestinian Liberation Organization that the organizations members have been trained by the HABBAS FEDAYIN. Group, that they are in cooperation with the international terror organization Japan Red Army, Italian Red Brigade, EDKB-C, Kurdistan Workers Part, Irish Republican Army and Marxist-Leninist Turkish organizations and they state that they are an indivisible part of the international revolution action.

THE AIM To realize the confession of the Turkish State to the so-called Armenian genocide that they claimed took place in Turkey in 1915. Forcing Turkey to pay for the compensation of this so-called genocide. To realize the return of the land within our Eastern and South-Eastern Anatolia which they claim has been occupied by Turkey, to their so-called legal owners, namely the Armenian, and for this purpose: To form an independent Armenian state on this land. To convert this land into a republic attached to the Armenian Republic. The ASALA Armenian Organization until now has realized most of its armed operations against the Turkish representations, in France. It has been observed that they use this country as their second largest action base after Lebanon. The Armenian militants, who have a freedom of movement in this country together with the large support they receive from the French administration and various Armenian establishments, realize their operations very easily. Furthermore they carry on their activities in countries like USA, Greece, Cyprus Greek Side, Syria, Iran and Canada.