Communist Party of Turkey (historical)

The Communist Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Komünist Partisi (TKP)) was a political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Suphi in September 10, 1920.

The ex-TKP merged into the United Communist Party of Turkey (TBKP) in 1988. TBKP merged into the Socialist Unity Party (SBP) in 1991. SBP and some leftists groups founded United Socialist Party (BSP) in 1994. Finally BSP merged into the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP).[1]

Currently there are several factions in Turkey who claim to be the true representators and succesors of the original TKP:

• The legal political party TKP which was founded in 2001 after they changed their name from SIP (Party for Socialist Power). By the year 2005, they started to organise a Patriotic Front against "pro-EU and liberal collaborators".
• The TKP which separated in 1978 from the main TKP and became known after the periodical İşçinin Sesi (Worker's Voice) which they issued.
• The TKP, which consists of three groups who don't feel themselves represented by the former two TKP parties and who are grouped around periodicals called Ürün sosyalist dergi (Harvest socialist magazine), and Savaş Yolu (Path of Struggle).

External links

• http://www.tkp.org.tr/en/index.asp
• http://www.odp.org.tr
• http://www.urundergisi.com/english.urundergisi
• http://www.ilericigenclik.org/
• http://www.tum-igd.org/
• http://www.t-k-p.org
• Encyclopaedia of Turkey: Leftist Movements in Turkey article