Abbreviation TKP Headquarters Ankara | Chairman Hüseyin Karabulut Newspaper soL | |
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Leader Collective leadership of Central Committee Founded 16 August 1993 (1993-08-16) (founded)
11 November 2001 (2001-11-11) (renamed)
22 January 2017 (2017-01-22) (reinitiated) | ||
The Communist Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Komünist Partisi, TKP) is a communist party in Turkey.
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It was founded as the Socialist Power Party (Turkish: Sosyalist İktidar Partisi, SİP) on 16 August 1993. In 2001, the party changed its name to the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) and took over historical legacy of the TKP.
Electoral performance
In the 2007 election, the party obtained its best result (by percentage) in Ardahan on the border with Georgia, where it got 787 votes (1.42%). TKP did not maintain offices in Ardahan.
In 2014 election, TKP won Municipality of Ovacık, Tunceli.
Dissolution
After a period of internal strife, two rival factions of TKP reached a consensus on 15 July 2014 to freeze the activities of the party and that neither faction shall use the name and emblem of TKP. The faction led by Erkan Baş and Metin Çulhaoğlu adopted the name People's Communist Party of Turkey and the faction led by Kemal Okuyan and Aydemir Güler founded the Communist Party.
In 22 January 2017, two rival groups agreed to continue under TKP and the schism ended.