Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist | |
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| Abbreviation | TKP/ML |
| Founder | İbrahim Kaypakkaya |
| Founded | April 24, 1972 |
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Communism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Turkish: Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist, TKP/ML) is a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist communist party in the Republic of Turkey. It is currently waging a protracted people's war against the Turkish state for the establishment of a new-democratic state.[1]
History
The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP/ML) was founded on 24 April 1972 by İbrahim Kaypakkaya, who broke decisively with the reformist and Kemalist lines dominating the Turkish left. Shortly after its founding, the TKP/ML established its armed wing, the Turkish Workers’ and Peasants’ Liberation Army (TİKKO), to carry out the protracted people's war in Turkish rural areas lead by the workers' and peasants' of Turkey. The TKP/ML was heavily criticizing the Turkish government, for its view and brutality on the Kurdish people. In 1973, Kaypakkaya was captured, tortured, and murdered by the fascist Turkish state due to the 1971 military memorandum in which the Turkish government started to perform a crack down on Communist movements inside Turkey. To this day, the TKP/ML continues its revolutionary work under conditions of illegality, repression, and imperialist aggression. It remains committed to the path of people’s war, proletarian internationalism, and the teachings of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. The legacy of İbrahim Kaypakkaya lives on in the struggle for a new democratic revolution in Turkey.
Modern day=
The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP/ML) continues to operate as an revolutionary organization. Despite decades of repression, imprisonment, and military operations by the Turkish state, the party maintains its underground structure and armed wing, the Turkish Workers’ and Peasants’ Liberation Army (TİKKO). While the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (TKP/ML) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have both engaged in armed struggle against the Turkish state, the PKK follows a Revisionist line and was supported by the USA during its war against the Islamic State. The cooperation with the PKK has started since 2007, before the Syrian civil war and the war against the Islamic State.
See also
References
- TKP/ML Party Program (2024)
- Partizan Theoretical Journal
- Red Herald – Essay on TKP/ML
- İbrahim Kaypakkaya Archive – Marxists.org
- TKP/ML 45th Anniversary Statement – Dem Volke Dienen
- MIM Archive – Kaypakkaya Texts
- BannedThought – Turkish Communist Movement Documents
- TKP/ML Armed Wing Activity Report (2023)
- Redspark – TKP/ML Tag
- New Epoch – TKP/ML Commemorates Kaypakkaya