What the records say
- When
- 16 Mar 1978
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 7
- Coordinates
- 41.01° N, 28.96° E
- Description
- 1978 terrorist incident in Turkey
Beyazıt massacre
1978 terrorist incident in Turkey
The Beyazıt massacre or 16 March massacre of 16 March 1978 was the massacre of students at Istanbul University, in which seven died and 41 were injured in a bomb-and gun attack. The head of the Istanbul branch of the Grey Wolves, Orhan Çakıroğlu, was sentenced to 11 years in 1980; he was released on appeal in 1982.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Резня на площади Беязыт — террористическая атака «Серых волков» в Стамбуле; погибли 7 человек, ранен 41.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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