Deniz Gezmiş, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Ayaş, Turkey
About Deniz Gezmiş
- Deniz Gezmis (28 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 People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO).He was born to an inspector of primary education and syndicalist Cemil Gezmis and a primary school teacher Mukaddes Gezmis.
- He was educated in various Turkish cities.
- He spent most of his childhood in Sivas, where his father grew up.
- He graduated from high school in Istanbul where he first encountered left wing ideas.
- Gezmis and companions are considered by some as "Turkey's Ché Guevara and compañeros".
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