External Sources
In a report on the central trial against Devrimci Yol in Ankara Amnesty International wrote in June 1988:
- Dev-Yol had no formal membership and gathered its supporters among people sharing the views expressed in a journal under the same name. Until the military coup in September 1980 this journal was legal like many other political publications."
In April 1997 the Swiss Refugee Support Organization (in German called de:Wikipedia:Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe, (SFH) published a report simply called "Türkei - Turquie". The report included detailed information on many legal and illegal Turkish and Kurdish organization. On Devrimci Yol it stated inter alias:
- "The organization was led by a collective. In the indictments against Dev-Yol the members of the central committee were named as : Oğuzhan Müftüoğlu, Nasuh Mitap, Ali Başpınar, Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Akın Dirik, Melih Pekdemir, Ali Alfatlı, Taner Akçam... Devrimci Yol quickly developed to a mass movement and had tens of thousands followers in a short time. Before the military coup its publication had a circulation of 115,000."
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