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
Cumhuriyet 2016, almost half of the paper's reporters, columnists and executives had been jailed by the Erdoğan government. Following the death of Yunus Nadi on 28 March 1945 in Geneva, Switzerland, "Cumhuriyet" was owned by his eldest son until his death on 20 August 1991. Nadir Nadi's wife Berin then published the newspaper. "Cumhuriyet" has been owned by the Cumhuriyet Foundation since the death of Berin Nadi on 5 November 2001. One of its publishers was the renowned political columnist İlhan Selçuk, who was also chairman of the board of trustees and lead writer (from 1992) until he died in 2010.