Workers Party of Turkey

TİP was founded by a group of union activists . After a year of inactivity, the founders proposed the Marxist lawyer Mehmet Ali Aybar to lead the party. Following Aybar, several Marxist intellectuals joined the party, and soon it adopted the Marxist program. The workers' party of Turkey believed that the country was ready for a socialist revolution carried out by democratic methods (while the other camp of the left - supporters of the "national democratic revolution" - insisted on armed means of struggle).

An important achievement for the party was its participation in the general election to the national parliament in 1965 , when 3% of voters voted for it and it won 15 seats in parliament. The active participation of deputies from the TİP party in parliamentary sessions was widely publicized and helped to strengthen the radicalization of the political environment in the country. Between 1967 and 1968, left-wing trade unions were formed in the country ( Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey , DİSK, led by TİP activist Kemal Turkler) and student organizations.

The political discussion club at the Department of Political Science of Ankara University under the leadership of a member of the TIP leadership, Professor Sadun Aren, has become one of the most influential in the country. Among the party members were prominent left-wing intellectuals - writer Cetin Altan , poet Jan Eugel , sociologist Behije Boran, historian and political philosopher Yalchin Kuciuc, agrarian engineering specialist Fatma Hikmet Ishmen and others, as well as revolutionary veteran Mihri Belli and representatives influenced by him Turkish generation of 1968, including Mahir Chayan and Deniz Gezmish

The entry of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968 split the world left movement, including TİP. Party leader Aybar, a supporter of "smiling socialism," condemned the introduction and began to use critical rhetoric regarding the Soviet Union ; however, part of the leadership, including the Arena, did not support him. When the Turkish Workers' Party failed to increase the number of votes cast for it in the 1969 general election (she only had 2 deputies in parliament), Aybar had to resign as party leader. In 1970, he was replaced by the sociologist- Marxist Behije Boran, who opposed Aybar’s anti-Soviet position. He, in turn, founded the new Socialist Party, subsequently renamed the Party of Socialist Revolution.

TİP was banned after the military coup of 1971 and Boran, along with other members of the party’s top leadership, was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. They were released under an amnesty of the government of Bulent Ecevit in 1974 and revived the party the following year. In 1978, during the massacre in Bahcelievler, seven students - TIP members - were killed by ultranationalists led by the leaders of the Gray Wolves Abdullah Chatly and Haluk Kardzhi .

The Turkish Workers' Party was again banned after the 1980 military coup , and many TİP activists were again repressed. This time, Behije Boran had to go into exile in Europe, and the party continued to work underground. In 1988, it teamed up with the Communist Party of Turkey to create the United Communist Party of Turkey.

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