Mahir Çayan

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Mahir Çayan (15 March 1946 – 30 March 1972) was a Turkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary who co-founded and led the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C), one of the main armed left-wing organizations in Turkey in the early 1970s. Çayan first became active in the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) and later in the National Democratic Revolution (MDD) current associated with Mihri Belli, before breaking with Belli over revolutionary strategy, Kemalism, and the political role of a possible military coup. He later emerged as a leading figure in Dev-Genç and helped establish THKP-C following the 1971 Turkish military memorandum. He was killed with nine other militants during the Kızıldere Incident in Tokat Province on 30 March 1972. Çayan was also known as a political theorist of the Turkish far left. In works such as Kesintisiz Devrim (Uninterrupted revolution), he developed a theory of revolution in Turkey that emphasized armed struggle and described what he saw as an artificial balance in the country's political order. He also criticized both Soviet and Trotskyist interpretations of Marxism.