Coşkun Kırca (27 March 1927 – 24 February 2005) was a Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician.
[2] On 12 March 1985 the Turkish embassy in Ottawa, where Kırca served as Ambassador, was attacked by Armenian Revolutionary Army militants.
Rather than being captured, Kırca escaped by leaping from the second-floor window at the back of the embassy, breaking his right arm, right leg and pelvis.
When he was a member of Turkish Parliament for the DYP, he voiced support for lifting the parliamentary immunity of the pro-Kurdish parliamentarians of the People's Labour Party (DEP).deeming it detrimental for the Turkish nation to leave them within the "democratic process".
He was buried at the Feriköy Cemetery, Istanbul the next day, almost exactly 20 years after his brush with death in Ottawa.