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
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist to the Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of the Directorate General for Security of the Turkish police. Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist ("Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist" in Turkish, abbreviated as TKP/ML) is a Maoist insurgent organization in Turkey claiming to be carrying out People's War against the Turkish Government. It was founded in 1972 with İbrahim Kaypakkaya as its first leader. The founders of the TKP/ML were the former members of the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey that desired to carry out armed struggle. TKP/ML participates in the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations. The