- For communists, the main goal in municipalities is first and foremost to open channels for the people, who are becoming increasingly conscious of their organization, to participate in governance.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Communist Party of Turkey: 14 Communist Principles for Municipal Elections
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Turkey's Communist Party nominates journalist Orhan Gökdemir to run for Istanbul mayor
TKP General Secretary Kemal Okuyan underlined: “We are a Marxist party. We know that it is the central political power that will change everything. "However, local elections offer the opportunity to create some cracks in the order", he said.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
European Communist Action Conference in Istanbul: Two Years Since the Imperialist War in Ukraine
Delegates from the Party of Labour of Austria, the Communist Workers’ Party – for Peace and Socialism (Finland), Communist Revolutionary Party of France, Communist Party of Greece, the Workers Party of Ireland, Communist Front (Italy), New Communist Party of the Netherlands, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain, Communist Party of Sweden, Swiss Communist Party, Union of Communists of Ukraine, and Communist Party of Turkey participated in the conference entitled “Two Years Since the Imperialist War in Ukraine: The Experience and Conclusions of the Communists”.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Communist Party of Turkey on anniversary of deadly earthquake: "We will not forget, we will not forgive"
"We remember the great disaster like it was yesterday.
How can we forget the thousands of people who died under the rubble while the state was completely absent, who were displaced from their homes and left to despair, how can we forget our neighborhoods, our districts, our labor, our history.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Communist Party of Turkey condemns Grand National Assembly's approval of Sweden NATO bid
"The Grand National Assembly of Turkey has made another shameful decision. The issue of Sweden's membership to NATO was discussed in the General Assembly of the Parliament today and approved with a majority of votes. As it is known, after the start of the war in Ukraine, NATO's attempt to gain new members in Northern Europe gained great momentum and the membership of Sweden and Finland was immediately on the agenda. As a result of an extremely fast process, Finland became a member of NATO and the Turkish Parliament was one of the parliaments that signed this historic decision in March 2023.
Monday, January 15, 2024
Security threat: Ottomanism, Islamism, Kurdism, Turkism and Imperialism!
We know that the real reason for Turkey’s military presence in foreign lands, especially in Syria and Iraq, is the insatiable greed for profit of the capitalist class.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Turkish communists cowardly attacked by fascists in Ankara University — Messages of solidarity
There was a similar attack attempt by fascists at the same faculty a few days earlier, but it was repelled by TKP members.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Turkey and the Socialist Revolution: Are We Chasing a Dream?
October 2023
The question “Do you really believe in revolution?” is probably not asked only to Turkish communists.
It has been 32 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We labeled the 20th century the era of transition from capitalism to socialism. In the last decade of that century and in the period that followed, we did not encounter even a single example that could mean “transition to socialism”.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Communist Party of Turkey: "The rightful resistance of the Palestinian people will win!"
More specifically, the statement issued by the CC of the TKP reads:
"Following the operation launched against Israel from Gaza yesterday, there is no shortage of propaganda in favor of the Israeli government in the bourgeois media and anti-violence messages of hypocritical imperialist centers and statements of solidarity with Israel are coming one after another.
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
The struggle against NATO cannot be postponed — Statement by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)
"It is only a matter of time before NATO, the world’s largest terrorist organisation, expands to include one more country.
We cannot be expected to remain indifferent to Sweden’s membership of NATO. Our interest does not only come from our responsibility to fight against the role of our own government in the oppression of the peoples of other countries.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
10th anniversary of Gezi Park Resistance: TKP hold a protest on Istanbul's Istiklal street
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) on Erdogan's re-election: No room for pessimism, we 'll be victorious
"Those who are trying to squeeze the struggle of this people into the ballot box should shut up from now on!
The results of the second round of the presidential elections have been largely finalized. Of course, it cannot be said that what emerged as the outcome of the elections, which were pointed to determine the fate of Turkey, is a hope for a bright future.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP): Go to the ballots, Say “NO” to Erdogan!
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Statement of the Communist Party of Türkiye on the result of the May 14 elections
Defeating the AKP by becoming like the AKP was a great illusion and deceiving the people. The so-called Nation Alliance is the subject of this illusion and the effort to deceive the people.
AKP, on the other hand, has been deceiving the country for more than 20 years.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
What will happen in Turkey if the Communist Party comes to power on May 14...
In just one (1) week...
— We will provide electricity, water, natural gas and urban transport free of charge.
— We will start working to ensure that all our citizens have a house where they can live humanely within one year, we will seize the houses owned by large construction companies and distribute them to those in need, we will ensure that the rents of our citizens who do not own a house are paid by the state in this one year.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
A strong TKP in Türkiye and a strong KKE in Greece — that's what the people need
Elections in Greece will be held on May 21. While it was expected that the elections would be held on an earlier date, they were postponed due to the train accident, which can be considered a "working class agenda". What is the political atmosphere in which Greece moves towards the elections?
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Thanasis Pafilis (KKE): "Today the people in Türkiye and Greece need a strong Communist Party"
The full speech reads as follows:
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP): Vote for exiting from NATO, not for NATO enlargement!
Vote for exiting from NATO, not for NATO enlargement!
Today the Parliament will vote on NATO enlargement. The general assembly of the Parliament will discuss the bill ratifying the protocol on Finland’s accession to NATO.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Communist Party of Turkey declares its electoral position: "1 Vote Against Erdoğan, 1 Vote For TKP"
Monday, February 20, 2023
"We will not suffocate under rubble once again!": Large solidarity event by the Communist Party of Turkey held in Ankara
On Saturday, the 18th of February, a massive event in the Kocatepe Cultural Center of Ankara was held, with the slogan “We are standing up, not to suffocate under rubble once again!