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Ankara says the DHKP-C has killed dozens of police officers and soldiers along with more than 80 civilians since it was formed in 1978.<\/p>\n
The banned group wants to replace the Turkish government with a Marxist one.<\/p>\n
It also opposes what it calls US imperialism and has several times targeted US military personnel and diplomatic missions.<\/p>\n
The DHKP-C is branded as a terror organisation by the US and the EU.<\/p>\n
The group has claimed a suicide attack against the US embassy in Ankara which killed the bomber and a guard on 1 February 2013.<\/p>\n
During the previous month, Turkish police made more than 80 arrests in raids targeting the group.<\/p>\n
Among those detained were students, lawyers, reporters and even members of a pop group who were thought to have links with the DHKP-C.<\/p>\n
The group was formed in 1978 as Dev-Sol (Revolutionary Left), a Marxist-Leninist splinter group from a larger group called Dev-Yol (Revolutionary Path). It changed its name to DHKP-C in 1994.<\/p>\n
In its early years the group recruited supporters mainly in high schools and universities.<\/p>\n
But analysts say its main power-base is among the urban poor.<\/p>\n
In 2000, the group spearheaded a long-running hunger strike in Turkish prisons over the introduction of high-security jails.<\/p>\n
More than 60 people died in the prison protest, most of them DHKP-C members. Another 30 inmates were killed when the army stormed prisons in December 2000 to end the campaign.<\/p>\n
The group has been blamed for the killings of two retired generals, a former justice minister and a prominent businessman.<\/p>\n
Experts say that during the 2000s the DHKP-C tried to gain prominence by imitating the tactics of al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n
But many of its senior figures fled abroad following Turkish police raids in 2004.<\/p>\n
The group’s founding leader Dursun Karatas spent years in exile after escaping from an Istanbul prison in 1989. He died of cancer in the Netherlands 2008.<\/p>\n
via BBC News – Profile: Turkey’s Marxist DHKP-C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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