Friday, March 22, 2024
Communist mayor of Patras Kostas Peletidis visits Turkey, meets with TKP delegation
Friday, March 15, 2024
Communist Party of Turkey: 14 Communist Principles for Municipal Elections
- 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.
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.
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 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, June 11, 2023
The 23rd International Meeting of Communist Parties (IMCWP) to be held in Izmir, Turkey on 20-22 October
The decision was taken during the IMCWP Working Group meeting that was held in Istanbul on Saturday 10 June.
The responsibility for organizing and hosting of October's meeting belongs to the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). It is reminded that Izmir had hosted the 21st IMCWP in October 2019.
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.
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:
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!
Thursday, February 16, 2023
KKE: The Turkish communists detained in Osmaniye must be immediately released
The Turkish communists must be immediately released and any action by the Turkish authorities to hamper their activity must be stopped!
Solidarity with the people and the Communist Party of Turkey
Monday, February 13, 2023
Turkish communist leader Kemal Okuyan assesses the earthquake disaster: "A big storm is brewing"
"The darkness of the AKP along with the market economy based on exploitation and plunder cost the lives of tens of thousands of our citizens , and left millions of people homeless. This is a terrible, unacceptable, revolting situation. There is more. Turkey has become completely open to a new operation of domestic and foreign capital and imperialist centers.
Friday, February 10, 2023
Turkey Earthquake: The Communist Party (TKP) on the frontline of solidarity and material aid
TKP has issued reports for the days following the earthquake, describing the situation and the role of the Party in providing actual solidarity to the earthquake-hit people.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Communist Party of Turkey-TKP: Organizing people's solidarity after the earthquake
Dear comrades,
We are in deep grief and very sorry to inform you that the destruction and damage caused by the earthquake seem quite massive.
For a brief information: