People's Communist Party of Turkey (, HTKP) was a communist party in

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founded in 2014.

Formation

Following a period of internal strife within the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), the party decided to split in two. The faction led by Erkan Baş and

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founded the People's Communist Party of Turkey on 13 July 2014, with the other faction forming the Communist Party (KP). 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 TKP has since been re-established.

References

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