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Ä°brahim Kaypakkaya

1949–1973

Nationality
Turkey
Occupation
politician

İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949 – May 18, 1973) was a Turkish Maoist revolutionary who founded the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) and started the Maoist insurgency in Turkey.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Diyarbakır Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949 – May 18, 1973) was a Turkish Maoist revolutionary who founded the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) and started the Maoist insurgency in Turkey. He is revered by many today as a symbol of resistance and as an aggregator of the ideas of other major leaders and thinkers in Marxism–Leninism and Maoism. Kaypakkaya was captured after being wounded in an engagement with the Turkish military in Tunceli Province in 1973, and executed in Diyarbakır Prison four months later.

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