In 1986 the Turkish Consulate at 44 Caroline St , South Yarra , was devastated by a car bomb . The blast occurred at 2:16 am , Melbourne time . One man , Hagob Levonian , was killed in the blast which went off prematurely as he was setting the car bomb while Levon Demirian waited in a car nearby . The body of Levonian was found " scattered in hundreds of pieces " . The men were members of a group known as the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and planned the bombing as a political protest in retaliation for the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 in Turkey
genocide of the Armenians
Armenian Genocide
1986 Turkish consulate bombing in Melbourne