THE LIFE AND THE STRUGGLE OF IBRAHİM KAYPAKKAYA!
The life of the communist leader and comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya was very short. He only lived to be 24-years-old.
He was murdered on the 18th of May 1973 in the torture dungeons of Diyarbakır, brutally cut into pieces by the fascist police of Turkey. He was tortured exactly 3 month until he died.
His life was very short but he was able to create a tradition for real communists held in the torture chamber "You give your life but not a secret" and even until today this tradition continues.
That means that he never really died: his spirit still lives on because the struggle continues. This struggle is a part of proletarian internationalism.
Ibrahim Kaypakkaya was the first person that ever went up to say that "Kemalism maybe in words means democracy, but in its practice it means fascism," during a time where everyone believed that Atatürk was an anti-imperialist who created the republic of Turkey.
Because of this, Kaypakkaya was also able to define that there is not just only the Turkish nation but also the Kurdish nation and opened the chapter for the National question in Turkey.
He also never believed that Soviet-Russia was still Communist or even socialist anymore. He believed that it had become a social-imperialist Country. He studied Chairman Mao and so was able to layout the social-economy for Turkey because it is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial Country. In the end he knew that the only way to liberate this Country was People's War. These are the special sides of leader and comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya.
After splitting from the revisionist Işçı Parti (Workers Party) he founded on the 24th of April 1972 the Turkish Communist Party Marxist-Leninist.
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