''İnkılâpçı'' ("Revolutionary") was a

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, closed in 1955.

History

İnkılâpçı ''(Revolutionary)'' was first published on 13 September 1955. The newspaper would be published for 15 weeks, in that period of time being viewed as the voice of the working classes; it published articles regarding all of the important social and economical subjects of those days. But after the

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administration declared and emergency situation on 14 December 1955, the newspaper was closed together with ''Neos Democratis'', the daily newspaper of

AKEL The Progressive Party of Working People (, , ΑΚΕΛ or AKEL; ) is a Marxist–LeninistHelena Smith, Cyprus gets ready for a communist 'takeover''The Guardian 2008 communist party in Cyprus. AKEL is one of the two major parties in Cyprus, and ...

. Initially AKEL, and then the leftist villager's, socialist youth and women's organizations were outlawed, with many leftists arrested and imprisoned. As it can be understood from the article under the title ''"Threat"'', published in the last issue of İnkılâpçı on 12 December 1955, the then

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leadership and its underground organisations sent letters of threat to the publishing team of İnkılâpçı, bearing passages such as "''stop the publication of İnkılâpçı, you will be killed, your heads will be crushed''". Several years after the closure of the newspaper, its former editor,

Fazıl Önder Fazıl Önder (1926 – 1958) was a Turkish Cypriot journalist who was assassinated. Biography Fazıl Önder was born in Omorphita in 1926. He completed primary school, but was unable to attend secondary school for financial reasons. Thereafter, ...

, was assassinated on 24 May 1958 by the TMT. Hulus İbrahim, the co-founder of İnkılâpçı, fled to

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to save his life on the same day of Önder's death.Tetikçileri biliyor (Turkish)
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References

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