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
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