People's Liberation Party (Turkey)
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People's Liberation Party | |
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| Leader | Nurullah Ankut |
| Chairman | Nurullah Ankut |
| Founded | June 15, 2014 |
| Newspaper | Halkın Kurtuluş Yolu |
| Ideology | Marxism Leninism Communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Yellow Red |
| Website | |
| kurtuluspartisi.org | |
The People's Liberation Party (Turkish: Halkın Kurtuluş Partisi, HKP) is a Marxist–Leninist group in Turkey. The party was established on June 15, 2005, on the 35th anniversary of the 15–16 June Worker Resistance.
HKP considers itself the political heir of both the Vatan Partisi (Homeland Party)[citation needed], which was founded by Hikmet Kıvılcımlı in 1954, and the first Communist Party of Turkey, which was founded by Mustafa Suphi in 1920.
Hikmet Kivilcimli (1902–1971), who was a guerilla commander in the Turkish War of Independence when he was 17, devoted his life to the struggle of the working class, and the HKP is led by his example and political thought and theory.
Nurullah Ankut, who is a retired philosophy teacher from Konya, has been the head of party since 2005.
HKP gained the right to participate in elections in the Turkish local elections of 2014, and they received a total of 26654 votes. HKP joined the Turkish general elections of June 2015 with 550 candidate from 85 voting section. They received a total of 60396 votes or 0,13%.
External links
- 15-16 Haziran Olayları-Events of 15-16 June 1975, Turkish Wikipedia article