Labour Party (Turkey)

Labour Party
Emek Partisi
ChairmanSeyit Aslan
Founded25 November 1996
HeadquartersFevzi Çakmak 1 Sokak No: 15/5, Ankara, Turkey
Membership (2024)Increase 5,165[1]
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationHDK
Labour and Freedom Alliance (Since 2022)
International affiliationICMLPO
IMCWP[2]
ColoursRed
Grand
National Assembly
2 / 600
Municipal Assemblies
11 / 20,952
Website
www.emep.org
EMEP poster, 2021

The Labour Party (in Turkish: Emek Partisi, EMEP) is a communist party in Turkey. Its chairperson is Seyit Aslan. The party was founded as Emek Partisi (Labour Party, EP) in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name Emeğin Partisi (Party of Labour, EMEP), the same year. In 2005, the name "Emek Partisi" was reinstalled after the European Court of Human Rights held the ban was a violation of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.[3]

Its ideological stance is in accord with the line of ICMLPO. In its programme, EMEP identifies its goal as creating an "Independent and Democratic Turkey". The party publishes the daily Evrensel (lit.'Universal'). The party is one of the participants in the People's Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012.[4] It is one of the few political parties in Turkey that recognize the Armenian deportations of 1915 as genocide.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Emek Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  2. ^ "20 IMCWP, Participants List". SolidNet. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. ^ ECHR, 31 August 2005, AFFAIRE EMEK PARTİSİ ET ŞENOL c. TURQUIE (Requête no 39434/98)
  4. ^ HDK Bileşeni Kurumlar
  5. ^ Gazetesi, Evrensel. "EMEP: Ermeni Soykırımı'nı lanetliyoruz". Evrensel.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  6. ^ Mayda, Mustafa (23 April 2017). "Soykırımın yıldönümünde: Ermeni halkının acısı bizim de acımızdır | Emek Partisi (EMEP)" (in Turkish). Retrieved 6 January 2022.