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
Halk Bankası Halk Bankası Halk Bankası ("People's Bank"), or Halkbank, is a large Turkish state-owned bank. Halkbank was incorporated in 1933 and began offering services 1938, it initially provided loan services via the People’s Funds. After 1950, Halkbank was authorized to directly open branches and grant loans to customers. By the beginning of 1964, Halkbank had embarked upon an ambitious program where it increased capital and became more active by establishing a nationwide network of branches. Today it is the seventh-largest bank in Turkey in terms of assets. Halkbank was a link in the chain to finance Iranian petroleum interests in the