Cihan Alptekin (1947 – 30 March 1972) was a Turkish revolutionary and militant who was a leader in left-wing organisations such as
People's Liberation Army of Turkey, and the
Revolutionary Youth Federation of Turkey
The Revolutionary Youth Federation of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Devrimci Gençlik Federasyonu), often known simply as Revolutionary Youth ( tr, Devrimci Gençlik, DEV-GENÇ) was a Marxist-Leninist organization founded in 1965 in Turkey and banned ...
, a Marxist organisation. He was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he died.
He went to the
Fatah
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camps in
Palestine
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in July 1969 for military training. Soon after he returned to Turkey he was arrested and jailed. In November 1971 he escaped the Maltepe Military Prison along with his comrades
Mahir Çayan and
Ulaş Bardakçı. He was an
Hamsheni
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In January 1972, he met with Mahir Çayan in Ankara in an attempt to help Hüseyin İnan, Deniz Gezmiş and Yusuf Aslan, who were on death row, to escape from prison. They kidnapped British technicians from the NATO base in Ünye and brought them to Kızıldere in an attempt to trade them off for their comrades on death row. This was refused by the government, which subsequently located them in Kızıldere with the coordination of the CIA. They were bombed and killed along with the hostages.
References
1947 births
1972 deaths
Turkish politicians
Anti-revisionists
Turkish communists
Turkish revolutionaries
Place of birth missing
Turkish people of Hemshin descent
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