Kemal Okuyan (born 1962) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey.

Youth

Through his childhood and youth, he was in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

and

İstanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

. He graduated from

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...

Political Sciences Department.

Political life

He started his political activities in

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 ...

. After criticising the party's politics based on national democratic revolution he took part in a splinter group formed around the journal ''Socialist Power (Sosyalist İktidar)'' and he was among the first writers of the journal. After the

1980 Turkish coup d'état The 1980 Turkish coup d'état ( tr, 12 Eylül Darbesi), 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 ...

this group ceased to work. In 1986 he and his comrades founded the ''Gelenek'' journal around which they have formed a nucleus of a traditional communist party. In the beginning of 1990's he and his comrades founded Party for Socialist Turkey and later on Party of Socialist Power. This party changed its name to Communist Party of Turkey in 2001 Congress. After the Communist Party of Turkey split in 2014, he resigned as general secretary and founded the

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 ...

with Aydemir Güler.TKP'nin yerine Komünist Parti ve Halkın Türkiye Komünist Partisi
/ref> Okuyan was elected general secretary of the Central Committee after Communist Party of Turkey was rebuilt in 2017.

Works

He is a columnist in the soL Portal a newspaper portal. He also wrote many books about political events in

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 ...

and the former

Marxist–Leninist State A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state that is administered and governed by a communist party guided by Marxism–Leninism. Marxism–Leninism was the state ideology of the Soviet Union, the Comint ...

Books

* Texts Against Democracy (Demokrasiye Aykırı Yazılar) * What Does The Soldiers' Party Want? (Asker Partisi Ne İstiyor?) * Civic Society: Development of State (Sivil Toplum: Devletin Büyümesi) * Understanding Stalin (Stalin'i Anlamak) * The Understanding of Power of Socialism in Turkey (Türkiye'de Sosyalizmin İktidar Arayışı) * The Book of What To Do-ists (Ne Yapmalı'cılar Kitabı) * Theory of Socialist Revolution (Sosyalist Devrim Teorisi) * Anti-Thesis on Dissolution of The Soviet Union (Sovyetler Birliği'nin Çözülüşü Üzerine Anti-Tezler) * The Left Stuck Between Ergenekon and AKP (Ergenekon ve AKP Arasında Sıkışan Sol) * The Exam of Patriotism of The Left of Turkey (Türkiye Solunun Yurtseverlik Sınavı) * In The Shadow of Revolution: Berlin-Warsaw-Ankara 1920 (Devrimin Gölgesinde: Berlin-Varşova-Ankara 1920)

References

External links

Okuyan's writings on "soL" newsportal
1962 births Communist Party of Turkey (current) politicians Living people Turkish journalists Turkish communists {{Turkey-journalist-stub