Taking Che’s Call Seriously Ertuğrul Kürkçü Castro’s Cuba provided the model for future “socialist society for Turkey’s revolutionaries in the 1960s and 1970s, while Che’s “guerilla” was accepted as  the model for “revolutionary struggle a “model” much more “reasonable and realistic” visàvis Allende’s “peaceful transition” pattern or the “noncapitalist development” strategy then proposed by the former Soviet Union”. The revolutionary movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Turkey, the followers of Che’s “guerilla” strategy that has been promoted by the Cuban Communist Party up until 1973, have been regarded as “left deviation” by their critiques while same analysts have exempted the Cuban Communist Party from such criticisms – a double standard in judging similar phenomena. Further the perspectives proposed by the critiques, for future development of the Marxist movement in Turkey altered between a parliamentarian path and a “progressive military take over”, thus making the Cuban perspectives the only acceptable path for young revolutionaries who considered creating a Marxist movement categorically detached from the bourgeois world, as the primary task in a revolution. In that context Che’s call then appeared for the revolutionaries as the only political perspective to be taken seriously.