ASALA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ASALA mean? 

• ASALA (noun)
  The noun ASALA has 1 sense:

1. a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia

  Familiarity information: ASALA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASALA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

3rd October Organization; Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia; ASALA; Orly Group

Context example:

ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Armenia; Hayastan; Republic of Armenia (a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their neighbors)