Mahir Çayan
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Mahir Çayan | |
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File:Photo of Mahir Çayan.jpg | |
Born | Samsun, Turkey |
March 15, 1946
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Kızıldere, Turkey |
Nationality | Turkish |
Known for | One of the most well-known Turkish communist leaders |
Political party | People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey |
Mahir Çayan (15 March 1946 in Samsun - 30 March 1972, Kızıldere) was a Turkish politician and the leader of People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi). He was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader. On 30 March 1972, he was killed by soldiers with nine friends in Kızıldere village.
Biography
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Çayan studied in Haydarpaşa high school and at the school of political sciences[1] of Ankara University. Earlier, he became a member of Workers Party of Turkey[2] and a leader of youth movement. He supported the idea of National Democratic Revolution but then he refused it. He admired Guevarist guerilla groups in Latin America (Tupamaros), and he created a strategy which was called people's revolution and democratic revolution. He and his 10 friends abducted two NATO technicians. They went to an old village house in Kızıldere with the technicians. They wanted Deniz Gezmiş and his friends not to be executed. But soldiers did not accept their demand and bombed the old house. Only Ertuğrul Kürkçü survived this attack.
In the March 30 of 1972, in the Kizildere village, located in the Black Sea region, where lives Mahir Cayan, is besieged by the army the direction of THKP-C. Mahir Cayan and nine companions are surrounded, they refuse to surrender and they resist heroically until the last bullet and fall in combat[3]
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