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
Turkey in the Bala Turkvision Song Contest the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in which the winning country proceeds to host the following year's event, hosting of the Bala Turkvision Song Contest takes place in the country or region that is also hosting the Turkish Capital of Culture. On 8 June 2015, Türk Müzik Birliği Television (TMB TV), announced that they would be making their debut at the Bala Turkvision Song Contest 2015, in Turkey, as the host country. Their selection method was done internally, with Cumhuriyet Grubu chosen to represent them with the song "Hayat Vayram Olsa". At the 2015 contest, Turkey finished in ninth place scoring