- 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.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Cypriot communists protested against foreign military bases and NATO in Nicosia
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The protesters denounced Israel's genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people and the bloodshed in Yemen, also highlighting the involvement of Cyprus through the British bases thus condemning the complicity of yet another Cypriot government. The Communist Initiative also denounced Cyprus' participation in the EU's imperialist military operation in the Red Sea.
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.
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”.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
The war in Gaza and the stance of the communists
The slaughter in the Middle East didn't begin on October 7. Last weeks' developments have been in gestation in the womb of a colossal injustice experienced by an entire people. The Palestinian people.
The reality is one and indisputable: The occupation of Palestinian territories by the Israeli state and the absence of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state are the source of the evil, which has been perpetuated since 1948, thus leading to millions of victims and displaced people.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
KKE and AKEL condemn attack on UN peacekeeping forces in Cyprus' buffer zone
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in an announcement on Saturday underlined that the occupation authorities in north Cyprus arbitrary decision to carry out unauthorised construction works for the opening of a road that would link the occupied village Arsos with Pyla (inhabited by Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots) along with the attack against UN peacekeeping forces aims to the creation of fait accompli and triggers a dangerous tension in the area.
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.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
KKE denounces the dangerous games played by ND, SYRIZA and PASOK with the Muslim minority of Thrace
The acute problems faced by the minority in Thrace have the same cause as those faced by the entire Greek people; therefore the struggle must be joint within the framework of the labour and popular movement.
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.
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.
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!