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 Engel ...
in
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
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 and Aydemir Güler
Aydemir Güler (; born 1961) is a Turkish communist politician and was the leader of Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).
Biography
Güler was born in 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from St. Joseph High School and Department of Economics, ...
founded the Communist Party on 17 July 2014,
Electoral performance
References
External links
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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
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