The Communist Party of Turkey was a political party in Turkey. The party was founded by Mustafa Suphi in 1920, and was soon to be banned. It worked as a clandestine opposition party throughout the Cold War era, and was persecuted by the various military regimes. Many intellectuals, like Nâzım Hikmet, joined the party's ranks. In 1988, the party merged into the United Communist Party of Turkey, in an attempt to gain legal status. The TKP was active from 1920 until its dissolution in 1988, and it was banned in Turkey in 1925 in order to ensure the country's security after the Sheikh Said Rebellion in Eastern Turkey. The party was legalized again after the Second World War, albeit with very limited power and it was heavily monitored by the Turkish government. However, after 1947 it was banned yet again and many of its leading figures were arrested and detained by the authorities. Initially adopting non-violent methods of introducing reform, the party began to adopt revolutionary viewpoints in the 1960s until its dissolution.
The Welfare Party was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal, and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, National Order Party (MNP) and National Salvation Party (MSP), which were banned from politics. The RP participated in mayoral elections at that time and won in three cities Konya, Şanlıurfa, and Van. Their vote percentage was approximately 5%.
The Left Party is a secular, socialist political party in Turkey. The Party was founded after the Freedom and Solidarity Party decided to change its name to the Left Party at the 8th Extraordinary Congress held in Ankara on December 22, 2019.
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey-Socialist Unity was a clandestine Marxist-Leninist political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1987, following a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP). It was dissolved in 1990.
United Communist Party of Turkey was a political party in Turkey.
The Labour Party of Turkey was a socialist political party in Turkey, led by Mihri Belli. TEP was founded in 1975, and sought to fill the political void created by the banning of the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) in 1971. The party remained a small organization. The leaders of the party were subjected to a lengthy political trial and suffered violent attacks. The party was banned in 1980 for promoting usage of Kurdish language in schools.
The Workers' Party of Turkey was a Turkish political party, founded on 13 February 1961. It became the first socialist party in Turkey to win representation in the national parliament. It was banned twice and eventually merged with the Communist Party of Turkey in 1987.
The Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan is an illegal political party active in Turkey. The aim of the party is to create an independent state for Kurdish people based on Marxist-Leninist principles.
Kurdistan Democratic Party/North or Türkiye Kürdistan Demokrat Partisi (TKDP), or Partiya Demokrata Kurdistana Turkiye (PDK-T), abbreviated KDP/Bakur or PDK/Bakur, is an illegal political party active in Turkey. The aim of the party is to create an independent state for the Kurdish people.
The Communist Party of Turkey is a communist party in Turkey. It was founded as the Socialist Power Party on 16 August 1993. In 2001, the party changed its name to the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) and took over the historical legacy of the TKP.
The Ottoman Socialist Party was the first Turkish socialist political party, founded in the Ottoman Empire in 1910.
People's Democracy Party was a Kurdish political party in Turkey. Murat Bozlak founded the party on 11 May 1994. The party disbanded in 2003.
Kemal Okuyan is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).
Socialist Party of the Oppressed is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the Republic of Turkey. It defines itself as "a militant revolutionary socialist party fighting for a workers'-labourers' federative republic in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan."
Kemal Burkay is a writer and politician.
The Freedom and Socialism Party is a Kurdish-based democratic socialist and federalist political party in Turkey. The party mentioned as Partiya Azadî û Sosyalîzmê in Kurdish.
Socialist Refoundation Party is a Marxist–Leninist and socialist feminist political party in Turkey. It was founded on 24 June 2013 as a merger of far-left factions Social Freedom Party Initiative, Workers' Socialist Party, Socialist Future Party Initiative, and the Movement for Socialist Unity. Latter, Social Freedom Party Initiative broke away from the SYKP foundation process and later evolved into Social Freedom Party. Party has a tri-coloured star as its logo, red representing socialism, purple for feminism and green for environment.
Freedom and Democracy Party was a pro-Kurdish rights party in Turkey. The party was created in October 1992 after the People's Labor Party (HEP) was banned. Four months after its formation, ÖZDEP was banned by the constitutional court of Turkey on charges of supporting self-determination and for conducting bureaucratic services in the Kurdish language. In an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, Turkey was ordered to pay compensation for the closure of the party in December 1999.
Fatma Hikmet İşmen was a Greek-born Turkish agricultural engineer with a specialization in plant pathology, as well as a politician who served as a senator for the socialist Workers Party of Turkey from 1966 to 1975.
The Revolutionary Communard Party is a left-wing political organisation founded on 4 February 2016, following the merger of the Liberation Movement and the Turkish Revolutionary Party.
