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Noun: 3rd October Organization
  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
    "3rd October Organization bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people";
    - Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Orly Group

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization