Cihan Alptekin (1947 â 30 March 1972) was a Turkish revolutionary and militant who was a leader in left-wing organisations such as People's Liberation Army of Turkey, and the Revolutionary Youth Federation of Turkey, a Marxist organisation. He was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he was killed.
He went to the DFLP military camps in Baqaa in Jordan in July 1969 for military training. Soon after he returned to Turkey he was arrested and jailed. In November 1971 he escaped the Maltepe Military Prison along with his comrades Mahir ÃÂayan and Ulaà  Bardakçñ. He was a Hamsheni (Armenian Muslim).
In January 1972, he met with Mahir ÃÂayan in Ankara in an attempt to help Hüseyin ðnan, Deniz Gezmià  and Yusuf Aslan, who were on death row, to escape from prison. They kidnapped British technicians from the NATO base in ÃÂnye and brought them to Kñzñldere in an attempt to trade them off for their comrades on death row. This was refused by the government, which subsequently located them in Kñzñldere with the coordination of the CIA. They were bombed and killed along with the hostages.