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Workers Party Of Turkey
Workers' Party of Turkey (''Türkiye İşçi Partisi'') was a Turkish political party, founded the 13 February 1961. It became the first socialist party in Turkey to win representation in the national parliament. It was banned twice (after the military coups of 1971 and 1980) and eventually merged with the Communist Party of Turkey (historical), Communist Party of Turkey in 1987. History TİP was founded by a group of labour union members. The founders invited lawyer Mehmet Ali Aybar to assume the leadership of the party. Following Aybar, several intellectuals like Çetin Altan, Aziz Nesin and Yaşar Kemal also joined the ranks and the party soon adopted a left-wing nationalism, left-wing nationalist and socialism, socialist program. The party's breakthrough came in the 1965 Turkish general election, 1965 general election when it got 3% of the votes in the national elections and won 15 seats in the parliament. TİP deputies' highly publicized active participation in parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Turkey (historical)
The Communist Party of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Komünist Partisi, TKP) 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 refor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 15-16 Events (Turkey)
The June 15-16 Events of 1970 began in Istanbul and soon became one of the largest actions of organised labor in Turkey's history. Changes in Union law In 1970, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Senate passed a bill amending two paces of legislation, the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Strike and Lockout Law No. 274, which regulated working life and basic union legislation, and the Law on Trade Unions No. 275. The bill as supported both by the governing Justice Party and the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). The amendment significantly restricted the freedom of workers to choose unions and made it difficult to change unions. The law entered into force on 11 June 1970 with the approval of President Cevdet Sunay. The bill was mainly aimed at preventing the flow of workers from Türk-İş to DİSK. DISK and its affiliated unions responded angrily to the new law and the Workers' Party of Turkey announced that it would take the controversial amendments to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Party Of Turkey (2017)
The Workers' Party of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye İşçi Partisi, TİP) is a political party in Turkey. The party was established as a result of the internal strife of two rival factions within the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). The faction led by former chairman Erkan Baş initially adopted the name People's Communist Party of Turkey in 2014 and after three years in 2017, this faction decided to establish the Workers' Party of Turkey. The party has an unusually high proportion of women and young people running its organisation compared to other parties in Turkey. The Workers’ Party of Turkey's aim is to encourage the spread and growth of grassroots organisations in order to strengthen the socialist movement. Since 2017, TİP has established local branches in over 40 cities and districts and is now eligible to take part in Turkish elections. As of August 2022, TİP is a member of Labour and Freedom Alliance and will participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections with this a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Party (Turkey)
The Workers' Party ( tr, ) was a political party founded in 1992 and led by Doğu Perinçek. It has its roots in the Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (TİİKP), the Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (TİKP) and the Socialist Party (SP) which was banned by the Constitutional Court in 1992. They are known as "''Aydınlıkçılar''" (Clarifiers) due to their daily newspaper '' Aydınlık'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment") that has a circulation of 63,000. During a general assembly on 15 February 2015, the Workers' Party was rebranded and changed its name to Patriotic Party, with Perinçek remaining as leader. Overview The İP traditionally combined Maoist rhetoric with a hardline left-wing Kemalism called '' ulusalcılık''. Although they accept scientific socialism as their main ideology, they have a more patriotic ideology than other left-wing parties in Turkey. Their revolutionary strategy is based on "National Democratic Revolution", which is close to Mao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Zana
Mehdi Zana (born 20 December 1940 in Silvan) is an author and former Kurdish politician from Turkey. At: "KORT BIOGRAFI ÖVER FÖRFATTAREN OCH POLITIKERN MEHDI ZANA" He is prominent Kurdish political activist a former Mayor of Diyarbakır. Following the coup de état in 1980 he was imprisoned for more than ten years. Early life and education Zana went to the local elementary school and did not finish high school to begin to work as a tailor in Silvan. The workshop he worked in was owned by a prominent Kurdist intellectual of the time, Niyazi Tatlıcı. The tailor workshop has been described as a sort of a "university" by political activists of the time. In the Eastern Meetings (''Doğu mitingleri)'' he attempted to organize a Kurdish theater tour through four villages in Diyarbakir but didn't succeed. Besides he was also involved in the Revolutionary Cultural Eastern Hearths (DDKO). Political career In 1963 he became a member of Workers Party of Turkey (TİP) of which two year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Türkler
Kemal Türkler (1926 – 22 July 1980) was a Turkish socialist labor union leader. He was founder and first president of Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (Türkiye Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu, DISK), and also one of the founders of the Workers Party of Turkey Workers' Party of Turkey (''Türkiye İşçi Partisi'') was a Turkish political party, founded the 13 February 1961. It became the first socialist party in Turkey to win representation in the national parliament. It was banned twice (after the mi ... (Türkiye İşçi Partisi, TİP) in 1963. He worked as a metal worker for a long time. He became president of Turkey's Metal Workers' Union (Türkiye Maden-Iş). He was a leading figure of the democratic trade union movement in Turkey. Kemal Türkler was assassinated on 22 July 1980 in front of his home in Merter, İstanbul by ultra-nationalist MHP militants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doğan Özgüden
Doğan Özgüden (born 1936, Kalecik, Ankara) is a Turkish journalist and publisher. A former editor of ''Akşam'' (1964–1966), he has been based in Belgium since 1974, having left Turkey after the 1971 military coup under threat of over 300 years in prison for his publications. Together with Info-Türk co-founder Inci Tugsavul he was awarded the 2006 ''Ayse Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Prize'' by the Human Rights Association of Turkey for Info-Türk's journalism. Career Özgüden worked at a variety of Turkish newspapers from 1952 to 1964, before becoming editor-in-chief of Turkish daily newspaper ''Akşam'' (1964–1966). A member of the Workers Party of Turkey (TIP), he was elected to the party's central committee in 1964. Together with Inci Tugsavul, Özgüden co-founded the Ant Publishing House in 1967, publishing the weekly ''Ant'' as well as a variety of books. Info-TürkInfo-Türk Editors/ref> After the banning of ''Ant'' by the junta of the 1971 military coup, its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yalçın Küçük
Yalçın Küçük (born 1938) is a Turkish socialist writer, economist, historian and media pundit, recognized for his historical studies on the late-Ottoman and Republican periods in the history of Turkey and Soviet economic development from a Marxist perspective and also his interest in crypto-Judaism in Turkey (Sabbateanism) and criticism of the Justice and Development Party. Background Küçük was born in Iskenderun. His father's ancestry is Turkoman while his mother's is Caucasian. He went to the Kabataş High School, followed by Ankara University. He graduated in 1960 with a degree in political science. Career His first job was in the State Planning Board, where he eventually oversaw the Long Term Planning department. In 1966 he found a position at the Middle East Technical University. He was fired after the 1971 coup. Before the coup he wrote calling for a "Socialist Revolution" and a socialist administration in Turkey in the leftist publications ''Yön'', ''Emek'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatma Hikmet İşmen
Fatma Hikmet İşmen (1918 – May 9, 2006) 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. Early life Fatma Hikmet was born to a Muslim minority family in Ioannina, Greece in 1918. Her father, Hüseyin Hüsnü Bey, is claimed to be a descendant of Ottoman-Albanian ruler Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1740–1822). After the Greco-Turkish War, the family emigrated to Turkey within the frame of population exchange between Greece and Turkey agreed by the Lausanne Convention in 1923. They settled in Beşiktaş, Istanbul. Due to the father's occupation as an army officer, the family migrated to Tokat and Adapazarı. Fatma Hikmet completed her primary and secondary education in Istanbul. She attended the Arnavutköy American High School for Girls, before moving to Istanbul Girls High School, finishing in 1933. She then studied agri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deniz Gezmiş
Deniz Gezmiş (27 February 1947 – 6 May 1972) was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, student leader, and political activist in Turkey in the late 1960s. He was one of the founding members of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO). Ethnically Kurdish, he was born to an inspector of primary education and syndicalist Cemil Gezmiş and a primary school teacher Mukaddes Gezmiş. He was educated in various Turkish cities. He spent most of his childhood in Sivas, where his father grew up. He graduated from high school in Istanbul where he first encountered left wing ideas. Gezmiş and companions are considered by some as "Turkey's Ché Guevara and compañeros". Political life After joining the Workers Party of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye İşçi Partisi), he studied law at Istanbul University in 1966. In the summer of 1968, he and around 15 other students founded the Revolutionary Student Union ( tr, Devrimci Öğrenci Birliği). He also founded the Revolutionary Jurist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yusuf Ekinci
Yusuf Ekinci (1942, in Diyarbakır – 25 February 1994, in Ankara) was a Kurdish politician in Turkey who was involved in the Susurluk scandal. Biography He was born in Lice to Kamil Ekinci. In June 1963 he was a student of the Faculty of Law at Ankara University and he was known as a socialist Kurdish nationalist in the school. He was among the members of the youth organization of the Workers Party of Turkey (TİP) which started its activities in Ankara in December 1963, and he worked as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper ''Emekçi'' (the Laborer), which was the publication of the Party. Following his graduation he went to Diyarbakır in April 1969 to do his compulsory practice, and he participated in the rally held here in protest to the draft bill of the Law to Protect the Constitution. During the period of his arrest in 1970 and 1971, he was put on trial on charges of carrying out activities within the Revolutionary East Culture Centers (DDKD). As of 1972 he was workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
