Workers Party of Turkey 1987, it merged with the Communist Party of Turkey to form the United Communist Party of Turkey in Brussels. Workers Party of Turkey Workers Party of Turkey ("Türkiye İşçi Partisi") was a Turkish political party, founded in 1961. It became the first socialist party in Turkey to win representation in the national parliament. It was banned twice (after the military coups of 1971 and 1980) and eventually merged with the Communist Party of Turkey in 1987. TİP was founded by a group of labour union members. After a year of inactivity, the founders invited Marxist lawyer Mehmet Ali Aybar to
Karagöz (magazine) chronological documentation - from the Second Ottoman Constitutional Period, the First World War, the Turkish Independence War up to the founding of the Turkish Republic - is unique. Ali Fuad Bey, the founder of the magazine, is considered to be the first Turkish cartoonist and was the publisher of numerous other magazines. In the first years' editions, all the cartoons were designed by Fuad Bey himself, Mehmed Baha and Halil Naci. After Ali Fuad Bey's death in 1919, the well-known journalist Mahmud Sadık became editor-in-chief. Fuad's sister and heiress Fatima sold the magazine in 1935 to the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi