Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (, TÄ°Ä°KP) was 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 ...
. TÄ°Ä°KP was founded in 1969 by the ("Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment") group that had broken away from
DEV-GENÇ ("Revolutionary Youth").
The chairman of TÄ°Ä°KP was
Doğu Perinçek. TİİKP was an illegal party.
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The central publications of the party were and ("Dawn").
In 1972,
Ä°brahim Kaypakkaya and others broke with TÄ°Ä°KP and formed ("Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)").
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In 1978, TÄ°Ä°KP was succeeded by ("Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey" or TÄ°KP). TÄ°KP later became a legal party and became ("Socialist Party" or SP). In 1992, ("Workers' Party" or Ä°P) was formed as a continuation of TÄ°KP and SP. In 2015 Workers' Party changed its name to Patriotic Party.
See also
* List of illegal political parties in Turkey
References
Banned communist parties in Turkey
Defunct communist parties in Turkey
Defunct Maoist parties
Economic history of Turkey
Maoist organizations in Turkey
Political parties established in 1971
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