The People's Liberation Party (, HKP) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. The HKP is based strongly around Hikmet Kıvılcımlı's ideas and philosophy. The party was established on 15 June 2005, the 35th anniversary of the 15–16 June Worker Resistance. HKP considers itself the political heir of both the , which was founded by Hikmet Kıvılcımlı in 1954, and the first Communist Party of Turkey, which was founded by

Mustafa Suphi Mustafa Suphi or Mustafa Subhi (1883 – 28 January 1921) was a Turkish revolutionary and communist during the period of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Suphi was born in 1883 in Giresun Province, in the Ottoman Empire, now lo ...

in 1920. Nurullah Ankut, a retired philosophy teacher from

Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

, has been the head of the party since 2005.

Ideology

Hikmet Kıvılcımlı (1902–1971), who was a guerilla commander in the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

when he was 17, devoted his life to the struggle of the working class. The HKP is led by his example and political thought and theory. HKP states that it is against the local moneylords, the finance-capitalists who are the partners and defenders of the international moneylords in Turkey and that it will liquidate them.

Election results

HKP gained the right to participate in elections in the Turkish local elections of 2014, and they received a total of 26,654 votes. HKP participated in the Turkish general elections of June 2015 with 550 candidate from 85 voting section. They received a total of 60,396 votes or 0.13%. In the November 2015 elections the party won 83,057 votes (0.17%).

General elections

Local elections

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