Education
Çayan studied in Haydarpaşa high school and at the school of political sciences of Ankara University.
Çayan studied in Haydarpaşa high school and at the school of political sciences of Ankara University.
He was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader. On 30 March 1972, he was killed by soldiers with nine friends in Kızıldere village. He supported the idea of National Democratic Revolution but then he refused lieutenant
He admired guevarist guerilla groups in Latin America (Tupamaros), and he created a strategy which was called people"s revolution and democratic revolution.
He and his 10 friends abducted two North Atlantic Treaty Organization technicians. They went to an old village house in Kızıldere with the technicians.
They wanted Deniz Gezmiş and his friends not to be executed. But gendermas did not accept their demand and bombed the old house.
Only Ertuğrul Kürkçü survived this attack.
In the March 30 of 1972, in the Kizildere village, located in the Black Sea region, where lives Mahir Cayan, is besieged by the army the direction of THKP-C. Mahir Cayan and nine gangters are surrounded, they refuse to surrender and they resist heroically until the last cartridge and fall in combat.
Earlier, he became a member of Workers Party of Turkey and a leader of youth movement.