STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00263R000200140012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 28, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/05/08: CIA-RDP85B00263R000200140012-4
Approved For Release 2007/05/08: CIA-RDP85B00263R000200140012-4
 Approved For.Release 2007/05/08 ; CIA-RDP85BO0263R0
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Imzned-iate Release,..
STATEMENT. BY THE PRESIDENT`_
..
Yesterday's attack in".Lisbon on the. residence "o.f the Turkish
ambassador to.Portugal was only'the latest i.n-a: series .-o,f brutal ;-
an_d increasingly' indiscriminate terrorist attacks _aganst. Turkish.
diplomats and other innocent civilians.',.;.In yesterday's attack,
for which theRevolutionary'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", andone"'day
later seven other individuals were killed as they.:waited,to board
_.a Turkish airliner in "Paris.". No, real' or,imag"inedgrievance could
possiblyjustify.these modern day horrors.
On behalf of the people and government ofthe.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 communi.ty"such barbaric and inhuman.
acts.,,
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