Workers Party of Turkey 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 assume the leadership of the party. Following Aybar, several other Marxist intellectuals also joined the ranks and the party
Maoist Communist Party (Turkey) Maoist Communist Party (Turkey) Maoist Communist Party of Turkey ( abbreviated as MKP) is a Maoist insurgent organization in Turkey. It is the most significant of the Maoist organisations in Turkey; it upholds the legacy of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. It maintains two armed wings: the "People's Partisan Forces" (Turkish: "Partizan Halk Güçleri" or PHG) and "People's Libration Army" (Turkish: "Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu" or HKO). MKP is a part of Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and participates in the Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Balkans. MKP emerged in 1987 as TKP/ML - Eastern Anatolia Regional Committee ("Doğu Anadolu Bölge Komitesi" in