People's Front ( tr, Halk Cephesi) is a Marxist-Leninist

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in the

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Organization

* Youth organization - Revolutionary Youth ( tr, Devrimci Gençlik) * Trade union - Revolutionary Workers Movement ( tr, Devrimci İşçi Hareketi) * Lawyers organization - People's Law Office * Engineers organization - Engineer Architects of the People * Prisoner support organization - TAYAD

Activity

Halk Cephesi works on issues such as solving social problems such as

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, prostitution,

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. Halk Cephesi is active mostly in poor neighborhoods in

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where it also has associations named "Hasan Ferit Gedik Center for Struggle and Liberation Against Drugs" which acts as a rehabilitation centre for those addicted to drugs. Public officials, hold the view that the People's Front is related to the

DHKP-C The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front ( tr, Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP-C) is a far-left Marxist–Leninist Communist party in Turkey. It was founded in 1978 as Revolutionary Left (Turkish: or ), and has been inv ...

Events

On 29 September 2013 Hasan Ferit Gedik, young activist of Halk Cephesi was killed by drug gang in Maltepe. Members of People's Front opened clinic the ''Hasan Ferit Gedik Center for Struggle and Liberation from Drugs'' On 28-29 October 2020, close to 100 people from Halk Cephesi were arrested in raids across 12 provinces in Turkey

International relations

People's Front is one of founder-members of the Anti-Imperialist Front, and organised yearly ''International Symposium against Imperialist Aggression''.International Eyup Bas Symposium For Unity Of The Peoples Against Imperialist Aggression
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References

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Bibliography

Halk Cephesi 2014

The Front for rights and freedom

External links

Halkın SesiIstanbul's Gentrification Wars
Vice's reportage on

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Communist organizations in Turkey Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front