The group's founding leader Dursun Karatas spent years in exile after escaping from an Istanbul prison in 1989.

BBC: Profile: Turkey's Marxist DHKP-C

Each of these entities have core principles, icons, rituals, a specialized vocabulary they use to describe themselves, a paradoxical ideal they struggle against, as well as a founding mythos and leader.

FORBES: Branding The (Un)Brand

Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the founding president and ousted leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party, announced Jan. 10 that she was prepared to run for the presidency.

CNN: COVER STORY - SPECIAL REPORT

Labour is defending a 19, 313 majority in the seat, which has been held by the NHS' founding father, Aneurin Bevan, and former Labour leader Michael Foot.

BBC: SERVICES

Phillips was a political veteran who had worked with Ralph Reed, the evangelical leader and Republican activist, co-founding Century Strategies, a campaign-consulting company that became notorious for its ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

It was an early Internet leader, investing in America Online and co-founding CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com and other Web sites.

FORBES: The accepted wisdom that the customer is king is all wrong.

For now, he seems also to have the backing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a cleric anointed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of a revolutionary theocratic Iran.

ECONOMIST: Iran: The problem of Persian pride | The

After her seemingly convincing electoral victory in June, the daughter of founding president Sukarno did nothing to build alliances that would ensure her the presidency and make her an effective leader.

CNN: Maneuvering to the Top amid Chaos