1976 Yeşilköy airport attack

1976 Yeşilköy airport attack
1976 Yeşilköy airport attack
Part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Location	Yeşilköy Airport, Istanbul, Turkey
Date	11 August 1976
Attack type	grenade attack, mass shooting
Deaths	4
Injured	~20
Victims	Ernest Eliash; Yutako Hirano; Harold Wallace Rosenthal; Shlomo Weisbach; ;
Perpetrators	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Assailants	Mohamed Mehdi and Mohamed Husain al-Rashid

LocationYeşilköy Airport, Istanbul, Turkey

Date11 August 1976

Attack type

grenade attack, mass shooting

Deaths4

On 11 August 1976, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine carried out a terrorist attack against Yeşilköy Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, killing four people and injuring 20 more.

v t e Prominent terrorist attacks against Israelis in the history of the Arab–Israeli conflict – the 1970s
1970	Munich bus attack (February 10) Swissair Flight 330 attack (February 21) Avivim school bus bombing (May 22) Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking (July 22) Dawson's Field hijackings (September 6-13)
1971	Murder of the Aroyo children (January 2)
1972	Lufthansa Flight 649 (February 22–23) Sabena Flight 571 (May 8) Lod Airport massacre (May 30) Munich massacre (5–6 September) Killing of Ami Shachori (18 September) Lufthansa Flight 615 (October 29) Bangkok hostage crisis (December 28)
1973	Assassination of Yosef Alon (July 1) Schoenau ultimatum (September 28–29) Rome airport attacks and hijacking (December 17–18)
1974	Kiryat Shmona massacre (April 11) Ma'alot massacre (May 15) Nahariya attack (24–25 June) TWA Flight 841 (September 8) Paris café attack (September 15) Beit She'an attack (November 19)
1975	Orly Airport attacks (January 13 and 19) Savoy Hotel attack (March 6) Kfar Yuval hostage crisis (June 15) Zion Square refrigerator bombing (July 4) Zion Square ice cream shop bombing (November 13)
1976	Air France Flight 139 (June 27) Yeşilköy airport attack (August 11)
1977	Lufthansa Flight 181 (October 13–18)
1978	Coastal Road massacre (March 11) ‡ Orly Airport attack (May 20) London bus attack (August 20)
1979	Ma'alot attack (January 13) Nahariya massacre (April 22)
Attacks launched from the West Bank Attacks launched from the Gaza Strip Attacks launched from Lebanon Attacks launched from Jordan ‡ indicates the terrorist attack which caused the greatest amount of Israeli casualties during the 1970s List of projectile attacks from Lebanon on Israel and the Golan Heights 1960s 1980s

v t e Prominent Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1970s
Within Israel	Avivim school bus bombing^* (May 22, 1970) Lod Airport massacre (May 30, 1972) Kiryat Shmona massacre^* (April 11, 1974) Ma'alot massacre^* (May 15, 1974) Nahariya attack^* (June 24–25, 1974) Beit She'an attack (November 19, 1974) Savoy Hotel attack^* (March 6, 1975) Kfar Yuval hostage crisis^* (June 15, 1975) Zion Square refrigerator bombing (July 4, 1975) Coastal Road massacre^* (March 11, 1978) Nahariya massacre^* (April 22, 1979)
Gaza Strip	Murder of the Aroyo children (January 2, 1971)
Aircraft attacks and hijackings	Swissair Flight 330 (February 21, 1970) Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking (July 22, 1970) Dawson's Field hijackings (September 6–13, 1970) Lufthansa Flight 649 (February 22–23, 1972) Sabena Flight 571 (May 8, 1972) Lufthansa Flight 615 (October 29, 1972) Rome airport attacks and hijacking (December 17–18, 1973) TWA Flight 841 (September 8, 1974) Air France Flight 139 (June 27, 1976) Lufthansa Flight 181 (October 13–18, 1977)
Worldwide	Munich massacre (September 5–6, 1972) Israeli Bangkok embassy hostage crisis (December 28, 1972) Assassination of the Israeli attache in Washington (July 1, 1973) Schoenau ultimatum (September 28–29, 1973) Paris café attack (September 15, 1974) Orly Airport attacks (January, 1975) OPEC siege (December 21, 1975) Yeşilköy airport attack (August 11, 1976) Orly Airport attack (May 20, 1978) London bus attack (August 20, 1978)
^* Attacks launched from Lebanon 1960s 1980s

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