İbrahim Kaypakkaya

Who was İbrahim Kaypakkaya?

İbrahim Kaypakkaya the leader of the Turkish communist movement. He was the founder of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist

Following the military memorandum of 1971 the Turkish government cracked down on the communist movement in Turkey, and was successful in destroying the machinery of the TKP/ML. Kaypakkaya and several of his colleagues were arrested. Kaypakkaya died in prison in 1973 where he was tortured over 4 months, and finally, shot in the head by his interrogator. The Revolutionary who has chosen death rather than disclose any secrets.He is revered as the symbol of the resistance. Many revolutionaries see in him the syntehesis of the five great Master of the International Marxism.