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Communist Labour Party of Turkey (in Turkish: ''Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi'') is an illegal
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. ...
in Turkey. TKEP was founded on May 1, 1980 by the People's Liberation Army of Turkey-Unity in Struggle (THKO-MB). THKO-MB was the pro-
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
faction that developed out of the crumbles of the original THKO. The general secretary of TKEP was Teslim Töre. Töre was jailed in 1993. TKEP set up a 'Kurdish Autonomous Organization'. In 1982 it developed into the
Communist Party of Kurdistan The Communist Party of Kurdistan ( ku, Partiya Komunistê Kurdistan; tr, Kürdistan Komünist Partisi; abbreviated KKP) is a political party in Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriye ...
(KKP). In 1990 KKP was separated from TKEP. In 1990 TKEP suffered a major split as the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist (TKEP/L) was founded. TKEP/L wanted to continue armed struggle. TKEP started entering legal politics. It organized an open movement, Emek, that in 1994 joined the (BSP), which would later become the
Freedom and Solidarity Party The Left Party ( tr, Sol Parti, often written as SOL Parti), is a secularism, secular, socialism, socialist list of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey. The Party was founded after Freedom and Solidarity Party ( tr, Özgürlük ...
(ÖDP) in 1996. In effect, through Emek, TKEP acted as a fraction within ÖDP. When ÖDP split in 2002, TKEP joined the new Socialist Labour Movement (SEH).


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List of illegal political parties in Turkey Illegal political parties in Turkey lists those organisations founded in or carried out activities mainly targeted to Turkey that (a) consider themselves to be political parties as indicated in their self-assigned names, (b) are not or cannot be ...
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Communist Party of Turkey (disambiguation) Communist Party of Turkey or Turkish Communist Party may refer to: * Communist Party (Turkey, 2014), 2014–2017 * Communist Party of Turkey (modern), founded as the Socialist Power Party in 1993 * Communist Party of Turkey (historical), 1920– ...
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Communist party (disambiguation) A communist party is a party that advocates the application of the social principles of communism. Communist Party may also refer to: Africa Benin * Communist Party of Benin * Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Benin Côte d'Ivoire * Revol ...
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List of Labour Parties The name Labour (or Labor) Party, or similar, is used by political parties around the world, particularly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. They are usually, but not exclusively, social-democratic or democratic-socialist and tradi ...


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