The People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi, THKP-C) was a Turkish Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group that was founded in 1970 by Münir Ramazan Aktolga, Yusuf Küpeli and Mahir Çayan.

On 17 May 1971, the THKC guerrillas Ulaş Bardakçı, Hüseyin Cevahir, Mahir Çayan, Necmi Demir, Oktay Etiman and Ziya Yılmaz kidnapped Israeli consul Ephraim Elrom.

[1] They left an announcement directed to the pro-American Council of Ministers (Turkish: Amerikancı Bakanlar Kuruluna) written by Bardakçı and Cevahir.

After the killing of the consul, the ethnic Zaza actor Yılmaz Güney hid the THKC guerrillas.

On 30 May 1971 Çayan and Cevahir entered a house in Maltepe, Istanbul, and took Sibel Erkan as a hostage.

The revolutionaries were surrounded by Turkish soldiers in Tokat, Niksar, Kızıldere village on 30 March 1972.

[8][9][10] One of the guerrillas, Ertuğrul Kürkçü, hid and saved himself, but he too was captured on 31 March 1972 due to his father not being able to find his son's body amongst the dead.