The Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (, DSİP) is a

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party in

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. It was founded by Şevket Doğan Tarkan and his friends from Trotskyist journal ''Socialist Worker'' in 1997. The group had links to far-left Kurtuluş Hareketi (Liberation Movement) before the

1980 Turkish coup d'état The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum. During ...

. An opposition grouping within DSİP named '' Antikapitalist'' was formed following a split in DSİP. The group had no relation with DSİP after that split. The party did not participate in elections in Turkey but supported left-wing electoral alliances. At the

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elections, they declared support for the independent candidates of

Democratic Society Party The Democratic Society Party (, DTP, Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk'', PCD) was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was c ...

. The party voted "yes" in the

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. The DSİP supports the political magazine '' Altüst''.ALTÜST
Dsip.org.tr. Retrieved on 2013-07-15. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. Lawyer Mücteba Kılıç, a member of the DSİP who was once on the agenda with the Young Civilians Initiative, was detained within the scope of the ' FETÖ' operation in 2016.

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