Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi

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Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi (TDKP)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey
founding February 2, 1980
Alignment Marxist-Leninist
Website http://www.tdkp.org/

The Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (tr: Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi TDKP) is a Marxist-Leninist organization that was founded in February 1980. It is an illegal party. It sees itself as the successor to the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO) . Most of the supporters continued their work in the Labor Party . The TDKP was an advocate of Albanian-style socialism

Party development and ideology

From the mid-1970s, THKO published the legal weekly magazine called Halkın Kurtuluşu (Liberation of the People). The supporters of the statements made there were known as Halkın Kurtuluşçular or HK'liler . After the general amnesty in 1974, numerous members of the THKO were released from custody. The cadre around Ercan Öztürk then began to rebuild the THKO.

In October 1978 the TDKP-İÖ ( İnşa Örgütü - organizational structure) was formed, which worked towards the establishment of the TDKP. On February 2, 1980, the first and probably only congress of the party took place at which the TDKP was founded. In 1981 the TDKP was forced to cease its activities completely. Three members of the Central Committee were able to move abroad. It was not until 1986 that efforts were made to reorganize the TDKP. From 1980 to approx. 1997 the TDKP worked politically in secret committees, carried out political agitation at universities, organized smaller illegal demonstrations and published publications close to the party, such as B. the magazines " Devrimin Sesi " (Voice of the Revolution)

In 1988 a group called Ekim split off (October). In 1989 a group called Türkiye Devrimci Komünist İşçi Hareketi (TDKIH) split up under the name of Türkiye Devrimci Communist Labor Movement of Turkey. She changed the name to TKIH in 1991 and later joined the Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti (MLKP), Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. In 1996 the TDKP saw another split with the Bolşevik İşçi Hareketi - Bolshevik workers' movement.

At a party conference in 1990, the TDKP decided to set up a Kurdistan committee. As a result, armed propaganda and agitation groups (SPA) were formed, which started their activities mainly in the province of Tunceli (Dersim). However, after a fatal attack by the PKK on a SPA group led by Yunus Aydar in October 1993 and the intensified operations in the Tunceli province since 1994, the Kurdistan Committee's activities almost had to be stopped.

The movement around Halkın Kurtuluşu was part of the anti- revisionist camp. Initially, she accepted the 3-worlds theory and advocated the ideas of Mao Zedong . She later refused and turned to Albanian-style communism . In the program that was passed at the Congress in February 1980, Turkey was presented as a semi- colonial , semi- feudal state in which the peasants were at the center of the revolution . The national bourgeoisie should be won over to the overthrow of the system by the revolutionary proletariat . There was talk of backward agricultural structures where imperialism , comprodorant monopoly capitalism and feudal remnants predominate.

Publications

After the establishment of the organizational structure of the TDKP ( İnşa-örgütü ), the illegal magazine Devrimin Sesi (Voice of the Revolution) was published. Before the coup, the legal magazine Halkın Kurtuluşu came out, which conveyed the ideology of the later TDKP. The publication of this magazine began in 1976 and was banned around January 1979. As a result, a few more illegal numbers were released. The legal monthly magazine Özgürlük Dünyası (World of Freedom) is a theoretical publication that has been published since October 1988. From March 1992 the weekly Gerçek (Reality) appeared, the publication of which was stopped in February 1995 in favor of the daily Evrensel (universal), which was published a few months later . The magazine Parti Bayrağı (party flag ) was another legal, monthly political-theoretical publication that appeared from 1978 until the coup.

Successors and followers abroad

From 1994/1995, preparations began within the party for the establishment of a legal party (under the name "Initiative for the establishment of the Labor Party"). In March 1996, the Emek Partisi ( Labor Party ) was founded. The Emek Partisi existed between March 27, 1996 and February 14, 1997. It was banned by the Constitutional Court for a violation of Articles 78 and 81 of the Law on Political Parties with the number 2820. The Emeğin Partisi (also known as Labor Party) was founded on November 26, 1996. Abdullah Levent Tüzel chaired both parties .

Even if the TDKP has not officially dissolved, it practically no longer exists. The party has not been visible as an organization since the late 1990s at the latest. As the Labor Party ( Emegin Partisi - EMEP) it remained on the legal political stage.

The Democrat İşçi Dernekleri Federasyonu (DIDF, Federation of Democratic Workers 'Associations from Turkey in the Federal Republic of Germany eV) was founded in 1980 as an umbrella organization of Turkish and Kurdish workers' associations in the Federal Republic. She was close to the TDKP. In 1996, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony-Anhalt designated the DIDF as the basic organization of the TDKP. According to its own information, the DIDF had member associations in over 35 cities with around 800 to 1,000 members.

Prosecution

Some of the people arrested for TDKP membership died in police custody on suspicion that they were tortured to death. This includes:

  • Hüseyin Karakaş died on September 27, 1980 in İskenderun
  • Hasan Asker Özmen died on October 5, 1980 in Ankara
  • Ekrem Eksi died on October 13, 1980 in Istanbul
  • Cafer Dağdoğan died on November 12, 1980 in Adana
  • Ercan Koca died on December 15, 1980 in Ankara
  • Mehmet Dağ died in Adana on December 29, 1980
  • Hulusi Dalak died on February 13, 1981 in Gaziantep

Another known fatality from the spectrum of the TDKP is the journalist Metin Göktepe , who was arrested on January 8, 1996 in Istanbul and beaten to death. Former editors-in-chief of Halkın Kurtuluşu were sentenced to long imprisonment terms as they had to answer for every incriminated article. For Veli Yılmaz the sentences totaled 750 years imprisonment, for Osman Taş 600 and Mustafa Yıldırım 155 years imprisonment. There were many arrests of TDKP supporters in both the 1980s and 1990s. Since the turn of the century there have been only a few proceedings from the TDKP (members of EMEP or employees of Evrensel).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From an asylum procedure in Austria on August 9, 2011, file number E3 263794-0 / 2008; Accessed October 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b See Development and Perspectives of the Turkish Left (Part 5) ; Accessed October 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h The information is taken from a work by Swiss Refugee Aid (SFH) from April 1997. They have been reproduced on the Internet under TDKP ; Accessed October 19, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c See an article written in English by Garbis Altınoğlu NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF MLKP AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN TURKEY ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Version dated August 28, 2000; Accessed October 21, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ml-review.ca
  5. ↑ The documents for the congress can be found in Turkish at kongre belgeleri ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. being found. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tdkp.net
  6. ↑ Statement by the German section of Amnesty International on an asylum procedure  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated August 19, 2004; Accessed October 20, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / aidrupal.aspdienste.de  
  7. ↑ In Turkish, the term "organization" ( TDKP Kürdistan Örgütü ) is also used. The reason for the step is in Turkish under Kürt sorununa ilişkin partinin yeniden inşası ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to read; Accessed October 21, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tdkp.net
  8. ↑ 6 members of the group were killed, see an article under Pertekli Yunus Aydar ve 6 TDKP'linin Anısına ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed October 21, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jarudiyar.com
  9. ↑ See a contribution by Çetin Konuk in "Teori ve Politika" Türkiye Solunun Tarihsel ve Politik Gerilimleri ( undated ); Accessed October 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ From the brochure "The Socialist Movement in Turkey, Hamburg 1980, p. 20.
  11. ↑ A detailed description of the ideological change of direction within the TDKP can be found in Turkish at Türkiye solu değerlendirmesi 5: THKO'dan TDKP'ye Doğru ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the TDKP-YİÖ (reconstruction). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tdkp.net
  12. ↑ Some issues can be found at http://www.ozgurlukdunyasi.org/ ; Accessed October 21, 2012.
  13. ↑ a b Statement of the SFH on activities for the TDKP of July 9, 2009; Accessed October 19, 2012.
  14. ↑ a b A list of parties in the Republic of Turkey in the library of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ; Accessed October 20, 2012.
  15. ↑ From the documentation Historical Development of the Political Left Movement in Turkey ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 537 kB) from the Protection of the Constitution NRW, August 2006, p. 10. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  16. ↑ a b Information from a brochure of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Turkish Political Organizations in Germany from August 2002. Zukunftsforum Politik, Brochure Series No. 45, Sankt Augustin, August 2002, ISBN 3-933714-55-9 ; Accessed October 19, 2012.
  17. ↑ See Constitutional Protection Report Saxony-Anhalt 1996, p. 72, Baden-Württemberg 1998.
  18. ↑ See a report by Amnesty International from April 1989. It can be found under the title Torture and Deaths in Custody ; Accessed October 20, 2012.
  19. ↑ The list was compiled on the basis of information from a project "Right to Life in Turkey (1980-2000)" (in Turkish) with the corresponding table ; Accessed October 20, 2012.
  20. ↑ According to an association for friendship and solidarity on the death of Hasan Asker Özmen , he had worked for the newspaper Halkın Kurtuluşu since 1977, first in Istanbul, then in Izmir and finally in Ankara until he was arrested on October 2, 1980. The officers interrogating him were convicted of torture; see trials of torture resulting in death ; Accessed October 20, 2012.
  21. ↑ See the website (in Turkish) that was opened in his name: http://www.metingoktepe.com/ ; Accessed October 20, 2012.
  22. ↑ See an article by H. Nedim ŞAHHÜSEYİNOĞLU with the title Dünden bugüne sansür ( memento of the original from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed October 20, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pirvakfi.8m.com
  23. ↑ See the report by Swiss Refugee Aid (SFH) Update 2008: Current developments in Turkey from October 9, 2008; Accessed on October 21, 2012. A search on the German pages or the Turkish pages of the Democratic Turkey Forum (DTF) show only a few results for the years 2000-2012.