Training of Armenian Secret Army fighter Megerdich Madarian (ASALA) 1983

June 1983. Beirut, Lebanon. On June 16, 1983, in Constantinople (Istanbul), at the Grand Bazaar, an ASALA fighter armed with grenades and automatic weapons blew himself up, killing two turks and injured 21. He was 19 years old. The operation was named ’Hagop Hagopian’. Three letters of Megerdich: “My mother. I have to leave you. I don’t want you crying. Get on your knees and pray for me, then proudly raise your head, because even if an enemy bullet hits me, my right hand will not release a weapon until t