Word: erez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revenge for the 1915 massacre of their countrymen in Turkey, and opium smugglers who believed they had been betrayed to the Austrian police by the Turkish authorities. Two days after the Vienna murder, gunmen in Paris opened fire on a car belonging to the Turkish ambassador to France, Ismail Erez, 56, who died along with his chauffeur. A clandestine Greek Cypriot group, the EOKA-B, quickly sought credit for the murder in Vienna, in retaliation for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. EOKA-B also said that it was responsible for the Paris murders, but its claim was disputed...