Labour Party (Turkey) Labour Party (Turkey) Labour Party (in Turkish: "Emek Partisi", EMEP) is a political party in Turkey. Its chairman is Selma Gürkan. The party was founded as "Emek Partisi" (Labour Party, EP) in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name "Emeğin Partisi" (Party of Labour, EMEP), the same year. In 2005, the name "Emek Partisi" was reinstalled after the European Court of Human Rights held the ban was a violation of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The party defines its ideology as "scientific socialism", referring to Revolutionary Communist Party
Communist Workers Party of Turkey and "Kamu Emekçileri Bülteni" (workers' bulletin). Communist Workers Party of Turkey Communist Workers Party of Turkey () is an illegal communist party in Turkey. TKİP was founded in November 1998 by EKİM (October), a group that had split away from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP) in 1988. Initially EKİM had been known as Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey-Leninist Wing ("Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi-Leninist Kanat"). In February 1999, TKİP suffered a split, and the Revolutionary People's Movement (DHH) was formed. TKİP prisoners in Turkish prisons took part in the death fasts in 2000. TKİP publishes "Ekim" (October), "Kızıl Bayrak"