İsmail Bilen
İsmail Bilen (1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician. He was elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey in 1974.
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Ismail Bilen (political pseudonym - Bostandzhi Marat) (1902-1983). A prominent leader of Turkish and World Communist movement. General Secretary of the Turkish Communist Party from 1974 to 1983.
1922 - Joined the Communist Party. 1927 - Elected as a member of Central Committee. 1927 - 1929 and 1933-1936 - Served as a member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Central Committee. 1937 and 1943 - Representative of the CPT in the ECCI (COMMINTERN). 6 June 1974 - Elected as General Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee. April 1983 - Chairman of the party.
- Bilen, İsmail: TKP MK Genel Sekreteri Kısa Biyografi, ISBN 975-8683-29-2
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