NEWS CENTER – The Turkish state has already committed massacres and genocides against freedom fighters. In 1958, led by the leftist and socialist youth of Turkey, Deniz Gezmis, Huseyin Inan and Yusuf Aslan, they fought against imperialism and the fascist dictatorship of that time. Their demand was the establishment of a democratic Turkey. But all three revolutionaries were executed on May 6, 1972 by the fascist Turkish state.
Today, their struggle has begun to live on in the person of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. Today, in the person of the PKK, this revolutionary resistance against the fascist coup and the March 12 military was the joint resistance of the youth of Kurdistan and Turkey.
DENÎZ GEZMÎŞ (1947-1972)
Deniz Gezmis was one of the most important leaders of the youth movement that developed in Turkey after 1965 and beyond. He is also one of the leaders and organizers of the Turkish People’s Liberation Army THKO.
He was born on February 24, 1947 in Ankara Ayaş district. As a child of a family of teachers, he completed his primary and secondary education in many cities, including high school in Istanbul. Deniz entered the Faculty of Law of Istanbul University in 1966 and still recognizes the left in his high school years and finds himself in the activities of the time during those years.
In 1965 he became a member of Üsküdarê – TİP (Turkish Workers’ Party). He first supported the workers on 31 August 1966 when Corum Municipality workers marched from Ankara to Istanbul and laid a black wreath in front of the Taksim Monument. He was detained during a [condemnation] demonstration by Turkish authorities. He was arrested during the events of January 19, 1967 and was released on bail along with 2 of his friends. He later took part in many political activities and the formation of institutions.
In September 1968, together with his friends Cihan Alptekin, Mustafa kerlker Gürkan, Mustafa Lütfi Kiyici, Cevat Ercişli, M. Mehdi Beşpinar, Selahattin Okur, Saim Kurul and Ömer Erim Süerkan, he founded the Revolutionary Students’ Union. Deniz Gezmiş was arrested on October 28, 1968 at the Yeşilk balay Airport during a protest rally in the United States, and was released shortly afterwards.
At Istanbul University a crowd of students marched against the right-wing forces. His actions were shown as a pretext and he was arrested again on 19 March and remained in prison until 3 April. He then presided over the faculty students on 31 May 1969 in a protest action. Injured in one of these actions. A verdict was handed down against him. But he still escaped from prison and went to Palestine at the end of June.
He remained in Palestinian guerrilla camps until September. Deniz Gezmiş, took part in many THKO activities. He was abducted on March 4, 1971, after being released from prison in the Sivas district of Şarkişşlay, near Gemerek. In the THKO case, which started on 16 July 1971, he was sentenced to death on 9 September 1971 for violating Article 146 of the Turkish Penal Code. He was hanged on May 6, 1972.
YUSIF ASLAN (1947-1972)
Yusuf was born in 1947 in the village of Yozgat. He completed his secondary education in an old-fashioned and anti-communist environment. Entered ODTU in 1966. Less than a year later he joined ODTU’s Socialist think tank and began working for Dev-Genç. After this time he was one of the pioneers in the organization of boycott activities and the occupation of ODTU, first in the preparatory school and then in the Faculty of Engineering. The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base. In 1969 he went to Palestine with his friends. Here he learned to pilot helicopters and planes. From tractors to helicopters, all types of vehicles are used with great skill. Deniz Gezmis and Hüseyin Înan were wounded in 1970arkişşla in Sivas in 1970, while joining a guerrilla group in the Nurhak Mountains. He was tried in extraordinary administrative courts. On May 6, 1972, Hüseyin Înan was hanged along with Deniz Gezmîşş.
HUSSEIN INAN (1949-1972)
He was born in 1949 in the village of Bozhoyuk in the Sariz district of Kayseri. He attended Primary and Secondary School in Sariz, and High School in Caesarea. In 1966 he enrolled in the Department of Science at ODTU University. He became a member of the Socialist Thought Club (SFK) and Dev-Genç. In the meantime he joined the TIP and took part in the activities of this party. He was also involved in anti-imperialist activities in Istanbul and Ankara, in Izmir and other regions; It took place during rallies and activities against the US Sixth Fleet. In the academic year 1966-67 he led the organization of boycott activities of ODTU University. Hüseyin Înan formed a group in 1068 from the divisions between the TIP and the MDD as a guerrilla base and developed the idea of fighting with the Guerrillas on the mountain against the Imperialism. The group, based in Ankara and in particular ODTU, will become the leading and leading cadres of THKO. Hussein Inan, who was expelled from the university in the same year, remained in the student body. On October 14, 1969, a significant portion of the group crossed into Jordan from Syria, and from there to the al-Fatah camp, the main stronghold of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Here he fought alongside the FKO against Israel. The raids took place inside the country of Israel. When he returned to Turkey in February 1970, he was caught in a bus on the Dilok-Amed road. He was released in October 1970 following a trial in Diyarbakir. When Hussein went to Ankara, the idea of a Mountain Guerrilla became clear in his mind. The Istanbul group, which also included Deniz Gezmiş, agreed on the same idea and line of action and formed THKO. Hussein, who was never known in the People’s Movement, carried out his organizational rhetoric, developing a sense of human relations and decision-making within the group.
He was arrested on March 24, 1971 in the district of Kayseri Pinarbaşiyê. Deniz Gezmis and Yusif Aslan were tried in the First Military Extraordinary Court and sentenced to death on November 9, 1971. Yusuf Aslan and Deniz Gezmis were hanged on May 6, 1972, despite the fact that their comrades appealed to the Assembly and joined the public in order to prevent the executions.
