Hussein Inan (Born in 1949, Bozhüyük, Gurun, Sivas – Died on May 6, 1972, Ulucanlar, Altındağ, Ankara), Turkish Marxist-Leninist militant, one of the founders of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey.
Hüseyin Inan was born in 1949 in the village of Bozhöyük, a district of Sivas's Gürün district. He attended primary and secondary school in Sariz and high school in Kayseri.
He enrolled in the METU Administrative Sciences Department in 1966. He became a member of Socialist Idea Club (SFK) and Dev-Genç to which this association is affiliated. In the same period, he became a member of TİP. He took an active role in actions both in Istanbul and Ankara, in Izmir and other cities, and was one of the organizers of the action against the US 6th Fleet. He took part in actions in rural areas such as land occupations. He led the organization of the METU Preparatory boycott that took place in the 1966-1967 academic year.
In 1968, Hüseyin İnan tried to develop the idea of fighting through the rural guerrilla by forming a core group, in line with the idea of a secret and narrow organization that became increasingly evident in the divisions within the TİP and later the MDD. Although he never gave up on the idea of MDD, he deviated from the intellectual struggle to the path of armed struggle.
In Ankara, the group led by Hüseyin İnan, especially a METU student, together with Sinan Cemgil, formed the core staff of THKO, the first armed organization in the history of Turkish socialism. Hüseyin İnan, who was expelled from the Faculty of Administrative Sciences in the same year, continued to stay in room 201-202 in the METU First Dormitory, which he would later share with Sinan Cemgil, Deniz Gezmiş and Yusuf Aslan. On October 14, 1969, together with the group that formed this core of THKO, he went to Jordan via Syria to the guerrilla training camps of Al Fatah, the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). After the training he received here, he took part in some actions and outpost raids against Israel for a while.
When he returned to Turkey in February 1970, he was caught in a bus on the Diyarbakır-Gaziantep road. He was released in October 1970 at the end of the ongoing trial in Diyarbakır.
First capture and release
After a twenty-day training in the Fatah camps, Hüseyin and 15 of his friends secretly entered Turkey from the Syrian border on Sunday, February 1, 1970. One of the group comes to Diyarbakır. Together with Alpaslan Özdoğan and Mustafa Yalçıner, İnan buried the weapons they brought with them within the walls of Diyarbakır. Later, it is agreed to meet in front of Diyarbakır Medical Faculty. However, when they arrived in front of the Faculty of Medicine, Hüseyin, Alp and Yalçıner, who saw that the faculty had been raided by the police, take the bus at a gas station outside Diyarbakır to go to Adana. Hüseyin and Alp sit side by side, Yalçıner sits alone.
The bus is stopped and searched by the gendarmes somewhere near Gaziantep. Hüseyin İnan and Alpaslan Özdoğan are taken into custody because they sit side by side. Mustafa Yalçıner escapes by chance and comes to Adana. Yalçıner then goes to Ankara. Müfit Özdeş, Teoman Ermete and Atilla Keskin are caught at the train station in Malatya. As a result, Hüseyin İnan, Atilla Keskin, Teoman Ermete, Müfit Özdeş, Ercan Enç, Alpaslan Özüdogru, Hamit Yakup, Ahmet Tuncer Sümer, Kadir Manga, Ali Tenk, Bahtiyar Emanet were arrested and put in Diyarbakır Detention House. Mustafa Yalçıner, Ahmet Erdoğan and 3 other people returning from Palestine could not be caught. However, Mustafa Yalçıner and Ahmet Erdoğan are started to be sought with the decision of arrest in absentia due to the statements given by the arrested at the Police.
The crime they are charged with is related to the guerrilla training they received in Palestine. They were released in October of the same year, thanks to the fact that, in the expert report on the subject requested by the court from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry expressed an opinion about the Fatah organization as a "Nationalist Arab organization", not as a socialist organization.
Second capture and execution
When Hüseyin Inan returns to Ankara after his release, the idea of a rural guerrilla in his mind becomes clear. They decided to establish THKO by meeting with the Istanbul group led by Deniz Gezmiş, who had similar thoughts and adopted the same line of action. Upon this decision, Deniz Gezmiş comes to Ankara from Istanbul, where he left for the last time.
Deniz Gezmiş becomes the leading theorist of THKO, in which Sinan Cemgil and Cihan Alptekin also took part in its founding. This entails being accepted as a leader by others. It is not limited to only theoreticism and is involved in all the armed actions of THKO. On December 29, 1970, the shooting of Kavaklıdere Police Station, which THKO used its name as an organization for the first time, after the murder of İlker Mansuroğlu, one of the 4 Dev-Genç member, on January 1, 1971, the robbery of the Türkiye İş Bankası Labor Branch, the raiding of American military facilities. He commits the kidnapping of one and then four American soldiers.
On March 23, 1971, another THKO militant, Mehmet Nakiboğlu, was caught in an ambush in Kayseri's Pınarbaşı district.
Deniz Gezmiş and Yusuf Aslan were sentenced to death on 1 October 9 by the Ankara Martial Law No. 1971 Military Court. He was executed together with Yusuf Aslan and Deniz Gezmiş on May 6, 1972, despite various attempts by the Parliament, the public and his fellow members of the organization to prevent the executions. His last words were, "I fought for the happiness and independence of my people without any personal interest. I have carried this flag with honor until now. From now on, I entrust this flag to the Turkish people. Long live the workers, peasants and long live the revolutionaries! Down with fascism!" It has been.
his grave Karşıyaka It is located in the Cemetery.
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