[1] What led to this incident was the ongoing lawsuit that demanded the execution of other THKP-C guerillas Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan, and Hüseyin İnan.
[1] 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.
[3] 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.
[1] After the Turkish government’s investigations, a local mukhtar, Hasan Yılmaz, told the policemen that Çayan and his friends headed to Kızıldere.
Events such as Bloody Sunday (1969), bombings, robberies, and kidnappings happened but it was responded with the government’s stance on gladio and militant activities of right groups, which paved the way to the Turkish coup d'état of 1980.