Communist Party ( tr, Komünist Parti, or KP) is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

founded in 2014.

Development

Following a period of internal strife within the then-defunct Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), the party decided to split in two. On 15 July 2014, the two rival factions reached a consensus to freeze the activities of the former party and that neither faction shall use the name and emblem of TKP.TKP'de yol ayrımı
/ref> The faction led by

Kemal Okuyan Kemal Okuyan (born 1962) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey. Youth Through his childhood and youth, he was in İzmir and İstanbul. He graduated from Boğaziçi University Political Sciences Department. Political lif ...

and Aydemir Güler founded the Communist Party on 17 July 2014, with the other faction forming the

People's Communist Party of Turkey People's Communist Party of Turkey ( tr, Halkın Türkiye Komünist Partisi, HTKP) was a communist party in Turkey founded in 2014. Formation Following a period of internal strife within the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), the party decided to ...

(HTKP).

Electoral performance

References

External links

* 2014 establishments in Turkey Communist parties in Turkey Far-left politics in Turkey International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties Political parties established in 2014 {{Turkey-party-stub