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Kemal Atatürk (or alternatively written as Kamâl Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1934, commonly referred to as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; c. 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolu ...
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Ismail Enver Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعیل انور پاشا; Turkish: İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer and a leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution ...
20th-century Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist
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Deniz Gezmiş (27 February 1947 – 6 May 1972) was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, student leader, and political activist in Turkey in the late 1960s. He was one of the founding members of the ...
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Doğu Perinçek (born 17 June 1942) is a Turkish politician and doctor of law who has been chairman of the left-wing nationalist Patriotic Party (Turkish: Vatan Partisi) since 2015.
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Fehriye Erdal (born 25 February 1977) is a female political activist from Turkey. She was one of the three DHKP-C members allegedly involved in the assassination of a Turkish businessman, Özdemir Sabancı ...
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Halide Edib Adıvar (Ottoman Turkish: خالده اديب sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English) (11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, nationalist, kemalist, teacher and political leader ...
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Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet ( ), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow ...
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Nubar Ozanyan (Armenian: Նուպար Օզանեան, born Fermun Çırak, 1956–2017) was a Turkish-born Armenian radical communist revolutionary, who served as a commander in the militant Communist Party of Turkey/ ...
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Mahir Çayan (15 March 1946 – 30 March 1972) was a Turkish communist revolutionary and the leader of People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi). He was a ...
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Şerife Bacı (literally: Sister Şerife), aka Şerife Kadın for "Mrs. Şerife", (died December 1921) was a Turkish folk heroine, who took part in the Turkish War of Independence, and was declared martyr due ...
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Dursun Karataş (25 March 1952 — 11 August 2008) was a Turkish revolutionary of Kurdish descent, and the founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C).
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Çerkes Ethem (Turkish for "Ethem the Circassian"; 1886 – 21 September 1948) (or Psheu Ethem) of House of Dipsheu was a Turkish militia leader of Circassian origin who initially gained fame for fighting ...
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İsmail Beşikçi (born 1939 in İskilip, Turkey) is a Turkish sociologist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer. He is a PEN Honorary Member. He has served 17 years in prison on propaganda charges stemming ...
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Mehmed Talaat (Ottoman Turkish: محمد طلعت, Mehmed Talât; 1 September 1874 – 15 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: طلعت پاشا; Turkish: Talât Paşa), was one of the ...
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Mustafa Subhi or Mustafa Suphi (1883 - 28 January 1921) was a Turkish revolutionary and communist during the period of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
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Alparslan Türkeş (25 November 1917 – 4 April 1997) was a Turkish politician, who was the founder and president of the Nationalist Movement Party. He represented the far-right of the Turkish political ...
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Mihraç Ural, also known as Ali Kayyali (Arabic:علي كيالي), is a Turkish-Syrian Alawite militant and leader of the Syrian Resistance (formerly known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Sanjak ...
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Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier, who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1916.
Turkish soldier, journalist and diplomat born in Peshawar
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Abdur Rahman Peshawari (Turkish: Abdurrahman Peşaveri; Urdu: عبدالرحمن پشاوری; 1886–1925), also known as Abdurrahman Bey (Turkish: Peşaverli Abdurrahman Bey), was a Turkish soldier, journalist ...