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Dursun Karataş (25 March 1952 ¶ — 11 August 2008) was a Turkish communist of Kurdish descent. He commanded the revolutionary left and DHKP-C. DHKP-C is seen as a "terrorist organization" in Turkey, the EU and the USA. The revolutionary left was closed in the 90s due to lack of personnel.
- Turkish
- 25 March 1952, Elazığ, Turkey
- Istanbul University
- 11 August 2008 (aged 56), Arnhem, Netherlands
Dursun Karataş (d. 25 Mart 1952, Cevizdere, Elazığ - ö. 11 Ağustos 2008, Arnhem ), Zaza asıllı Türk komünist. Devrimci Sol 'un ve DHKP-C 'nin önderliğini yapmıştır. 11 Ağustos 2008 tarihinde kanser nedeniyle ölmüştür.
- Kanser
- Gazi Mezarlığı, İstanbul
The group’s leader, Dursun Karataş, had been arrested and jailed after the events of 1980, though he escaped and fled to Europe a decade later. In the mid-1990s he served a minimal jail term in France, and he died in the Netherlands in August 2008.
- Richard Mchugh
Dursun Karataş was the founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front in Turkey. Karataş founded Dev-Sol in 1978, as an offshoot of the Turkish People's Liberation Party/Front. The group was based in Istanbul. Karataş was jailed after the 1980 military coup.
The organization was originally formed in 1978 by Dursun Karataş as Revolutionary Left (Turkish: Devrimci Sol or Dev Sol), a splinter faction of Devrimci Yol ("Revolutionary Way"), which splintered from the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C), which in its turn was a splinter of Revolutionary Youth Federation (commonly known in ...
- DHKP-C
- Revolutionary Left
- 30 March 1994
- Dursun Karataş
The organization was originally formed in 1978 by Dursun Karataş as Revolutionary Left (Turkish: Devrimci Sol or Dev Sol), a splinter faction of Devrimci Yol ("Revolutionary Way"), which splintered from the Turkish People's Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C), which in its turn was a splinter of Revolutionary Youth Federation (commonly known in ...
The group’s leader, Dursun Karataş, had been arrested and jailed after the events of 1980, though he escaped and fled to Europe a decade later. In the mid-1990s he served a minimal jail term in France, and he died in the Netherlands in August 2008. After Karataş died,… Read More
