Workers Party of Turkey 1987, it merged with the Communist Party of Turkey to form the United Communist Party of Turkey in Brussels. 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
Mahir Çayan NOT a Marxist Theory." Mahir Çayan Mahir Çayan (15 March 1946 – 30 March 1972) was a Turkish communist revolutionary and the leader of People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (Turkish: "Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi"). He was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary leader. On 30 March 1972, he was killed by soldiers with nine friends in Kızıldere village. Çayan studied in Haydarpaşa high school and at the school of political sciences of Ankara University. He then became a member of Workers Party of Turkey and a leader of youth movement. He initially supported the idea of National Democratic Revolution but later changed this