18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention 18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention The 18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention () took place on 5 and 6 September 2014 in order to elect a leader of the Republican People's Party ("Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - CHP"), a Turkish centre-left political party. Initially, an ordinary convention was due to be held in 2014, two years after the previous one in 2012. However, the party's incumbent leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu accepted calls for an extraordinary convention to be held following the loss of the CHP's presidential candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu in the presidential election held in August. The ordinary convention will thus
Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (, TİİKP) was a Maoist communist party in Turkey. TİİKP was founded in 1969 by the "Proleter Devrimci Aydınlık" ("Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment") group that had broken away from DEV-GENÇ ("Revolutionary Youth"). The chairman of TİİKP was Doğu Perinçek. TİİKP was an illegal party. The central publications of the party were "Proleter Devrimci Aydınlık" and "Şafak" ("Dawn"). In 1972, İbrahim Kaypakkaya and others broke with TİİKP and formed Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist ("Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)"). In 1978, TİİKP was succeeded by Türkiye İşçi Köylü Partisi ("Workers'