BOOK REVIEW - THE ARARAT ILLUSION

Article Details

BOOK REVIEW - THE ARARAT ILLUSION

Publisher:

Terazi Yayıncılık

Journal:

Review of Armenian Studies 2017 Issue 36, pp.135-138

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2017

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000605089

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2757-5845

pISSN:

1303-5304

Abstract:

 

On January 27, 1973, Mehmet Baydar, the Turkish Consul General  of Los Angeles, and Bahadır Demir, the Vice Consul, were  murdered in a hotel cottage in Santa Barbara, California by a 73-  year old retired Armenian named Gourgen Yanikian. The diplomats were  both shot at point-blank range in a deceptive ruse that Yanikian had  planned for months. After emptying his first gun into the two men,  Yanikian then shot Baydar and Demir each in the head with a second  weapon, to make sure they were dead. He then called the police, reported  the crime and sat down to wait for the arresting officers to arrive. In a  lengthy manifesto posted to media outlets and individuals around the  world days before the murders, Yanikian called on the global Armenian  diaspora to take up arms against the Turkish government and kill its  representatives. This historical tragedy serves as the prologue to David  Minier’s novel, The Ararat Illusion, and the book’s main character,  detective Michael Page, who was the (fictional) first responder to the  double homicide.

Article Details

BOOK REVIEW - THE ARARAT ILLUSION

Publisher: Terazi Yayıncılık

Journal: Review of Armenian Studies 2017 Issue 36, pp.135-138

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2017

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000605089

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 2757-5845

pISSN: 1303-5304

Issues

Publisher:

Terazi Yayıncılık

Journal:

Review of Armenian Studies 2017 Issue 36, pp.135-138

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2017

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000605089

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2757-5845

pISSN:

1303-5304