The Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party ( tr, Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi, DSİP) is a

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...

party 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 ...

. 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 ( 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 ...

. 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 ( tr, Demokratik Toplum Partisi, 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 Soci ...

. The DSİP is the Turkish section of the

International Socialist Tendency The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain (not to be confused with t ...

. 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.

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* {{Turkish political parties 1997 establishments in Turkey Communist parties in Turkey Far-left politics in Turkey Peoples' Democratic Congress Political parties established in 1997 Trotskyist organizations in Turkey