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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Deniz Gezmiş

1947 - 1972

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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 People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO).He was born to an inspector of primary education and syndicalist Cemil Gezmiş and a primary school teacher Mukaddes Gezmiş. He was educated in various Turkish cities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deniz Gezmiş has received more than 301,446 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Deniz Gezmiş is the 353rd most popular social activist (down from 288th in 2019), the 912th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 801st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 353 out of 538Before him are Lee Radziwill, Sultan al-Atrash, Toyohiko Kagawa, Natalya Estemirova, Venetia Burney, and William Howard Russell. After him are Mary Dyer, Mary Toft, Dorothy Day, Jerry Rubin, Claudette Colvin, and Harry Wu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 315Before him are László Fazekas, Giancarlo Minardi, Alan Lee, Peter Cosgrove, Egberto Gismonti, and Michael McKean. After him are Billy Hayes, Vladimir Petrov, Gregg Allman, Hristo Bonev, Leszek Balcerowicz, and Kim Campbell. Among people deceased in 1972, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 129Before him are Rudolf Belling, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raúl Leoni, Marianne Moore, Roger Courtois, and Jinichi Kusaka. After him are Arthur Russell, Solomon Lefschetz, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Balys Dvarionas, Antal Szabó, and Markos Vamvakaris.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 912 out of 1,301Before him are Meriones (null), George Kodinos (1350), Wasfi Tal (1919), Theodore of Tarsus (602), Musine Kokalari (1917), and Polemon of Laodicea (200). After him are Ayşe Kulin (1941), Theodora Komnene (1096), Cemal Süreya (1931), Hrachia Acharian (1876), Ali Rıza Pasha (1860), and Dieter Zetsche (1953).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Turkey

Among social activists born in Turkey, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 2Before him are Hrant Dink (1954). After him are İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949), Sakine Cansız (1958), Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Eren Keskin (1959), Mari Beyleryan (1877), Cenk Uygur (1970), Murder of Özgecan Aslan (1995), Saadet Özkan (1978), and Hande Kader (1993).