It is housed in a sprawling Tudor style manor located at 197 Wurtemberg Street overlooking the Rideau River.

On April 8, 1982 Kani Gungor, the embassy's commercial attaché, was shot in the parking garage of his residence and left permanently paralyzed.

Harout Kevork, Raffic Balian and the 17-year-old Haig Gharakhanian were arrested two years later for the crime.

[1] Several months later on August 23 Col. Atilla Altıkat, the military attaché, was assassinated while driving to work.

[citation needed] The embassy was guarded by a private security officer, Claude Brunelle, who confronted the assailants.

The ambassador at the time, Coşkun Kırca, fearing he was their target jumped from a second story window breaking a number of bones.