Turkish assembly speaker sees link between PKK and ASALA

Turkish Assembly Speaker Jemil Cicek said that the terrorist organization ASALA and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have links, Turkish television reports.

Cicek also said that Turkey plans to take counter-measures against the recognition of Armenian Genocide and terrorism.

Paris passed the law on punishments for the denial of Armenian Genocide on the day ASALA killed a Turkish consul for tourism, a niece of Cicek of the Turkish Embassy in Lisbon.

ASALA is the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, a transnational ethnic organization. The US State Department recognizes it as a terrorist organization. The organization was headed by Akop Akopyan (Arutyun Tagushyan), who was killed at outside his house in Athens in 1988. ASALA fights to force Turkey to recognize Armenian Genocide during WWI.