Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Chokri Belaid

Chokri Belaïd was a Tunisian lawyer and politician who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. Belaid was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the current Islamist-led Tunisian government. On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.

DHKP/C

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front, (Turkish: Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP/C) is a Marxist-Leninist party in Turkey.

The group espouses a Marxist-Leninist ideology and holds an anti-U.S., anti-NATO position. It considers that the Turkish government is under the control of Western imperialism and seeks to destroy this control by violent and democratic means.

On 1 February 2013, a suicide bomber, a DHKP/C militant, blew himself up at the US embassy in Ankara, killing a Turkish security guard and wounding several other people