Communist Party of Turkey (Workers Voice) Some members of Chamberlain's group went so far as to join the TKP. Communist Party of Turkey (Workers Voice) Communist Party of Turkey (in Turkish: "Türkiye Komünist Partisi") is a clandestine political party in Turkey. The party, which split from the Communist Party of Turkey in 1978, is often known as Communist Party of Turkey (Workers Voice); because the main publication of the party is "İşçinin Sesi" (Workers Voice). However the party considers itself as the continuation of the historical entity. In the 1980s and 1990s it had strong links with the group around John Chamberlain (who uses the pen-name
Cumhuriyet making a stand against the AKP government's mounting pressure. Shortly thereafter, 's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the newspaper's Ankara representative Erdem Gül were arrested facing sentences up to life imprisonment. During the last decade, the newspaper's staff has also been physically attacked, with the 2008 molotov attack against "Cumhuriyet"'s headquarters in Istanbul's Şişli district being particularly significant. Also notable is the attempted assassination of Can Dündar in 2016. "Cumhuriyet" contributors such as Uğur Mumcu, Bahriye Üçok, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Muammer Aksoy, Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Onat Kutlar, and Cavit Orhan Tütengil had been assassinated in the past. By the end of