Kızıldere Incident
1972 CE.
Shown on the map at 40.448°, 36.915°.
The Kızıldere Incident (Turkish: Kızıldere Olayı) was a political armed conflict that took place in the Kızıldere village of the Turkish city of Tokat on 26 March 1972, which ended in the deaths of nine Turkish leftist guerrillas belonging to People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C). What led to this incident was the ongoing lawsuit that demanded the execution of other THKP-C guerrillas Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan, and Hüseyin İnan. Leftist guerilla Mahir Çayan and his friends kidnapped the Israeli ambassador, Ephraim Elrom, and killed him to prevent the oncoming execution of formerly arrested guerrillas. After the murder of Ephraim Elrom, the Turkish government managed to seize Mahir Çayan in a gunfight and placed him in the Maltepe military prison. THKP-C guerrillas Mahir Çayan, Ulaş Bardakçı, Ziya Yılmaz, and THKO guerrillas Cihan Alptekin and Ömer Ayna managed to escape on 29 November 1971 by digging a tunnel. After their escape, Çayan and his friends kidnapped two English and one Canadian technicians from the Ünye Radar Station in the Turkish city of Ordu on 26 May 1972 to force their demands.
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