Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey

Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey
Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi
AbbreviationTDKP
FoundedFebruary 2, 1980 (1980-02-02)
Preceded byTHKO
HeadquartersNone (illegal organisation)
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Hoxhaism
Anti-revisionism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationICMLPO
Website
www.tdkp.org

The Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi, TDKP) is a clandestine communist party in Turkey. TDKP considers itself to be the continuation of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu, THKO). The THKO Conference gathered in October 1978. It changed the name of the organisation to that of Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey - Construction Organisation (TDKP-İÖ short for İnşa Örgütü).[1] The split with the pro-Soviet line of the THKO, called Mücadelede Birlik ('Unity in Struggle') in 1974 is also shown as its roots.[2] Between 1976 and 1979 the followers of THKO gathered around a legal publication called Halkın Kurtuluşu (People's Liberation) and are often known by that name.[3] THKO passed through two splits, Bes Parçacılar left in 1976 and THKO-Aktancılar in 1977.[4] Bes Parçacılar reunited with TDKP-IÖ in 1979. The TDKP-IÖ formally founded TDKP at a congress on 2 February 1980.[5]

TDKP adhered to the political line of the Albanian Party of Labour.[6]

  1. ^ See English text on tdkp.org website; accessed on 17 September 2010
  2. ^ Taken from an article by Garbis Altınoğlu Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine; accessed on 17 September 2010
  3. ^ Taken from the German publication of the organisation Swiss Refugee Aid, dated April 1997 and reproduced under http://ob.nubati.netview_html.php?sq=Qlik&lang=&q=TDKP; accessed on 17 September 2010
  4. ^ A look at Family Tree of the Radical Turkish Left Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine may be helpful.
  5. ^ see this website Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, in Turkish; accessed on 17 September 2010
  6. ^ Compare expertise opinion of the German section Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine of Amnesty International of October 2004; accessed on 17 September 2010 "Asylverfahren eines türkischen Staatsangehörigen / TDKP | Amnesty International Deutschland". Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2019-05-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)