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02 Dec
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Sydney : Bomber lives among us now

by Mark Buttler and Anthony Dowsley

A man convicted of a terrorist bombing in Melbourne 20 years ago can never be deported for his crime.

Levon Demirian was a key figure in the 1986 bombing of the Turkish consulate in South Yarra, in which his accomplice died.

Demirian’s Australian citizenship allowed him to avoid banishment to
his native Lebanon when his prison sentence ended. He is living in
Sydney.

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01 Dec
0

ASIO hears of terror attack on radio news

When Armenian terrorists tried to blow up the office of the Turkish consulate-general in Melbourne in 1986, the first the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) knew of it was a radio news broadcast.

A 1987 cabinet document, released by the National Archives of Australia, says VICPOL (Victorian Police) initially saw the attempt as one-off criminal act possibly directed at any of the occupants of the consulate building and nearby offices.

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01 Dec
0

Pope Francis pays his respect to Ataturk at his first Turkey visit

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Pope Francis, the religious leader of the world’s Catholics visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk soon after his arriving of Turkey.
Accompanied by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Ankara’s Deputy Governor Mehmet Ali Ulutaş, Pope Francis laid a wreath to the mausoleum bypassing the Anıtkabir’s Lion Road since it took a long walking path.

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01 Dec
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Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki was attacked by Molotov cocktails

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Some masked people have thrown Molotov cocktails at the Turkish Consulate General in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday.

The assailants threw at least five Molotov cocktails in twenty minutes, according to the information the Turkish press agency AA obtained from the officials at the consulate.

The assailants attacked the police booth in front of the consulate building first, and later a police bus in the same area. The attackers, to whom the police retaliated with blast and gas bombs, reportedly ran away in the direction of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The attackers also reportedly set trash bins on their way on fire.

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