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 TV Halk TV Halk TV is a Turkish nationwide TV channel established in 2005. It is known for its relationship with the Republican People's Party (, CHP), although the previous links were cut off in 2011 under a new CHP leader. The Gezi Park protests brought Halk TV into the spotlight as one of the few Turkish television channels to broadcast live coverage of the events. Because of this, the Turkish TV watchdog RTÜK imposed a fine on Halk TV for "harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people". Halk TV was established in 2005 "by former