Communist Party of Turkmenistan

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Communist Party of Turkmenistan Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy
First Secretary	Saparmurat Niyazov (last)
Founded	19 November 1924
Banned	16 December 1991
Succeeded by	Democratic Party of Turkmenistan
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colours	Red
Party flag
Politics of Turkmenistan Political parties Elections

The Communist Party of Turkmenistan (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Turkmenistana; Turkmen: Түркменистаның Коммунистик Партиясы, romanized: Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy) was the ruling communist party of the Turkmen SSR which operated as a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985, it was led by Saparmurat Niyazov. On 16 December 1991, as the Soviet Union was in the process of dissolving, Niyazov reorganized the CPT as the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan.^[1] The current Communist Party of Turkmenistan was made illegal during the presidency of Niyazov after independence and remains banned.^[2]