İbrahim Kaypakkaya

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İbrahim Kaypakkaya

İbrahim Kaypakkaya was a leader of the Turkish communist movement. He led the split away from the neighboring Soviet Union's ideology and took up Maoism and the Cultural Revolution. As such, Kaypakkaya led a life that was a concrete manifestation of the Sino-Soviet split.

Kaypakkaya also took the position that there is a national question involved with the Kurdish people.

Prison wardens tortured Ibrahim Kaypakkaya to death at Diyarbakır in May 1973 at age 24, but not before he founded the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) on April 24, 1972. While he was being tortured, one of his nails was ripped everyday^{[citation needed]}. His body was cut into pieces when his father took the corpse to bury^{[citation needed]}. Today there are several thousands of Turkish people actively organized in various organizations supporting his legacy of armed struggle^{[citation needed]}.