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Workers' Party

İşçi Partisi
Workers' Party İşçi Partisi
Leader	Doğu Perinçek
Gegründet	10 July 1992
Dissolved	15 February 2015
Preceded by	Socialist Party
Succeeded by	Patriotic Party
Hauptsitz	Toros Sokak No: 9 Sıhhiye, Ankara
Ideology	Scientific socialism; Left-wing nationalism; Left-wing populism; Ulusalcılık; Maoism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
International affiliation	CILRECO (International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea), Los Partidos Y Una Nueva Sociedad.
Colours	Red, White
Slogan	Bağımsızlık, devrim, sosyalizm! ("Independence, revolution, socialism!")
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The Workers' Party (İP) (Turkish: İşçi Partisi) was a Turkish political party founded in 1992 and led by Doğu Perinçek. It had its roots in the Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (TİİKP), the Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (TİKP), and the Socialist Party (SP) (which was banned by the Constitutional Court in 1992).^[4] They were known as "Aydınlıkçılar" (Clarifiers) due to their daily newspaper Aydınlık ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment") that had a circulation of 63,000 in 2012.^[5]

During a general assembly on 15 February 2015, the Workers' Party rebranded and changed its name to Patriotic Party. Perinçek remained as leader.^[4]

Übersicht

The İP traditionally combined Maoist rhetoric with hard-line, left-wing Kemalism called ulusalcılık. The party accepted scientific socialism as their main ideology, combined with more of a patriotic core than other left-wing parties in Turkey. Their revolutionary ideals were based on the "National Democratic Revolution", close in name to Mao Zedong's "New Democratic Revolution". İP supported Stalin's "Socialism in One Country" thesis, rather than Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev's "national communism" thesis.

Mehmet Bedri Gültekin, deputy chairman of the party, wrote a book on Sultan-Galiev's counter-revolutionary role.^[6] They admired the founder of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (considered a "left-wing bourgeois democratic revolutionary" by Chairman Perinçek ^[7]), as much as they admired Marxist revolutionary leaders like Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. The party promoted alliances with nations that the party believes have anti-imperialist tendencies (such as Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba) and opposed the existence of American expansionism (such as India, China and Russia).^[8]^[9]

İP stated that a brotherhood-based solution to the Kurdish question must exclude imperialist initiative in the Middle East. They claimed that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been completely under the control of the USA since the Gulf War. İP asserted that it is still possible to unite Turkish and Kurdish people in Turkey within the borders of an anti-imperialist nation state which will be established through a democratic revolution. According to the party, separatism became a tool of American imperialism in breaking national markets in the Third World in post-Cold War conditions. Although they traversed separation, they also defended democratic rights and freedoms of Kurdish peoples in Turkey. For İP, the key tool to solve the Kurdish problem is to demolish "feudal structures" in Kurdish provinces and make peasants "free citizens".^[10]^[11]^[12]

Wings

The youth student wing of İP was known as Öncü Gençlik (Vanguard Youth).
The women wing of İP was known as Öncü Kadın (Vanguard Women).

Media

Aydınlık (Clarity), daily newspaper.
Aydınlık Daily, news portal in English.
Teori (Theory), monthly theory and strategy review.
Bilim ve Ütopya (Science and Utopia), monthly science journal.
Ulusal Kanal (National Channel), television station.
Kaynak Yayınları (Source Publications), publisher.

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Election date	Leader	Votes	%	Seats
1995	Doğu Perinçek	61,428	0.22%	0 / 550
1999		57,593	0.18%	0 / 550
2002		160,227	0.51%	0 / 550
2007		127,220	0.36%	0 / 550

References

^ "Milliyetçi olmayan bir parti". Marksist. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
^ "ZAMAN GAZETES". Archived from the original on 26 May 2006.
^ "Avrupa'nın popülist sol parti ihtiyacı" (in Turkish). Aljazeera. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Brief history of the Patriotic Party". Vatan Partisi. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
^ "MEDYATAVA - Çift Sarılı Yumurta Tadında". www.medyatava.net. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012.
^ "Sultan Galiyev Eleştirisi : Teori ve Siyaset : : Kaynak Yayınları". Archived from the original on 18 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
^ Kemalist Devrim 1/Teorik Çerçeve - Doğu Perinçek. Kitapyurdu. 19 March 1992. ISBN 978-975-343-038-8. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
^ "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 08.11.2012". Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
^ "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 23.10.2013". Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
^ "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 08.11.2012". Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
^ "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 22.10.2013". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
^ "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 22.10.2013". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

[1] "Milliyetçi olmayan bir parti". Marksist. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

[2] "ZAMAN GAZETES". Archived from the original on 26 May 2006.

[3] "Avrupa'nın popülist sol parti ihtiyacı" (in Turkish). Aljazeera. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

[:0-4] "Brief history of the Patriotic Party". Vatan Partisi. Retrieved 5 January 2020.

[5] "MEDYATAVA - Çift Sarılı Yumurta Tadında". www.medyatava.net. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012.

[6] "Sultan Galiyev Eleştirisi : Teori ve Siyaset : : Kaynak Yayınları". Archived from the original on 18 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.

[7] Kemalist Devrim 1/Teorik Çerçeve - Doğu Perinçek. Kitapyurdu. 19 March 1992. ISBN 978-975-343-038-8. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

[8] "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 08.11.2012". Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

[9] "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 23.10.2013". Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

[10] "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 08.11.2012". Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

[11] "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 22.10.2013". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

[12] "Worker's Party (Turkey)| 22.10.2013". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

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+The '''Workers' Party''' '''(İP)''' ({{lang-tr|{{italics correction|İşçi Partisi}}}}) was a Turkish [[political party]] founded in 1992 and led by [[Doğu Perinçek]]. It had its roots in the [[Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey]] (TİİKP), the [[Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey]] (TİKP), and the Socialist Party (SP) (which was banned by the [[Constitutional Court of Turkey|Constitutional Court]] in 1992).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://vatanpartisi.org.tr/english/haberler/brief-history-of-the-patriotic-party-turkey-10962|title=Brief history of the Patriotic Party|website=Vatan Partisi|access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref> They were known as "''Aydınlıkçılar''" (Clarifiers) due to their daily newspaper ''[[Aydınlık]]'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment") that had a circulation of 63,000 in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medyatava.net/tiraj.asp |title= MEDYATAVA - Çift Sarılı Yumurta Tadında|website=www.medyatava.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014101010/http://www.medyatava.net/tiraj.asp |archive-date=14 October 2012}}</ref>
-During a general assembly on 15 February 2015, the Workers' Party was rebranded and changed its name to [[Patriotic Party (Turkey)|Patriotic Party]], with Perinçek remaining as leader.<ref name=":0" />
+During a [[general assembly]] on 15 February 2015, the Workers' Party rebranded and changed its name to [[Patriotic Party (Turkey)|Patriotic Party]]. Perinçek remained as leader.<ref name=":0" />
 ==Overview==
+The İP traditionally combined [[Maoism|Maoist]] rhetoric with hard-line, left-wing [[Kemalism]] called ''[[ulusalcılık]]''.  The party accepted [[scientific socialism]] as their main ideology, combined with more of a [[Patriotism|patriotic]] core than other left-wing parties in Turkey. Their revolutionary ideals were based on the "National Democratic Revolution", close in name to [[Mao Zedong]]'s "[[New Democratic Revolution]]". İP supported Stalin's "[[Socialism in One Country]]" thesis, rather than [[Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev]]'s "[[national communism]]" thesis.
-The İP traditionally combined [[Maoism|Maoist]] rhetoric with a hardline left-wing [[Kemalism]] called ''[[ulusalcılık]]''. Although they accept [[scientific socialism]] as their main ideology, they have a more [[Patriotism|patriotic]] ideology than other left-wing parties in Turkey. Their revolutionary strategy is based on "National Democratic Revolution", which is close to [[Mao Zedong]]'s "[[New Democratic Revolution]]". İP supports Stalin's "[[Socialism in One Country]]" thesis, rather than [[Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev]]'s "[[national communism]]" thesis. Such that, Mehmet Bedri Gültekin, deputy chairman of the party, wrote a book on Sultan-Galiev's counter-revolutionary role.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kaynakyayinlari.com/urun/sultan-galiyev-elestirisi_541.aspx?CatId=140 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130818134645/http://www.kaynakyayinlari.com/urun/sultan-galiyev-elestirisi_541.aspx?CatId=140 |archive-date=2013-08-18 }}</ref> They admire the founder of the Turkish republic, [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] (who is considered a "left-wing bourgeois democratic revolutionary" by Chairman Perinçek <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/default.asp?id=40652 |title=Kemalist Devrim 1/Teorik Çerçeve - Doğu Perinçek |publisher=Kitapyurdu |access-date=21 September 2015}}</ref>) as much as they admire [[Marxism|Marxist]] revolutionary leaders like [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong]]. They also promote alliances with nations they believe have [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] tendencies (such as [[Venezuela]], [[Brazil]] and [[Cuba]]) and oppose the existence of [[United States|American]] [[expansionism]] - (such as [[India]], [[China]] and [[Russia]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=180 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108042335/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=180 |archive-date=2012-11-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=190 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023070728/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=190 |archive-date=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
-İP states that a brotherhood based solution to the [[Kurds|Kurdish]] question must exclude [[Imperialism|imperialist]] initiative in the [[Middle East]]. They claim that the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] (PKK) has been completely under the control of the USA since the [[Gulf War]]. İP asserts that it is still possible to unite [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Kurds|Kurdish]] people in [[Turkey]] within the borders of an [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] [[nation state]] which will be established through a [[democratic revolution]]. According to them, separatism became a tool of [[American imperialism]] in breaking national markets in the [[Third World]] in post-[[Cold War]] conditions. Although they traverse separation, they also defend democratic rights and freedoms of Kurds in Turkey. For İP, the key tool to solve the Kurdish problem is to demolish "[[Feudalism|feudal]] structures" in Kurdish provinces and make peasants "free citizens".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=156 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108044818/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=156 |archive-date=2012-11-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=173 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022052401/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=173 |archive-date=2013-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=188 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022030508/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=188 |archive-date=2013-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
+Mehmet Bedri Gültekin, deputy chairman of the party, wrote a book on [[Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev|Sultan-Galiev's]] [[counter-revolutionary]] role.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kaynakyayinlari.com/urun/sultan-galiyev-elestirisi_541.aspx?CatId=140 |title=Sultan Galiyev Eleştirisi : Teori ve Siyaset : : Kaynak Yayınları |access-date=2013-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130818134645/http://www.kaynakyayinlari.com/urun/sultan-galiyev-elestirisi_541.aspx?CatId=140 |archive-date=2013-08-18 }}</ref> They admired the founder of the Turkish republic, [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] (considered a "left-wing [[Bourgeois revolution|bourgeois democratic revolutionary]]" by Chairman Perinçek <ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/default.asp?id=40652 |title=Kemalist Devrim 1/Teorik Çerçeve - Doğu Perinçek |date=19 March 1992 |publisher=Kitapyurdu |isbn=978-975-343-038-8 |access-date=21 September 2015}}</ref>), as much as they admired [[Marxism|Marxist]] revolutionary leaders like [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong]]. The party promoted alliances with nations that the party believes have [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] tendencies (such as [[Venezuela]], [[Brazil]] and [[Cuba]]) and opposed the existence of [[United States|American]] [[expansionism]] (such as [[India]], [[China]] and [[Russia]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=180 |title=Worker's Party (Turkey)&#124; 08.11.2012 |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108042335/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=180 |archive-date=2012-11-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=190 |title=Worker's Party (Turkey)&#124; 23.10.2013 |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023070728/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=190 |archive-date=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
+İP stated that a brotherhood-based solution to the [[Kurdish nationalism#Kurds in Turkey (Bakur)|Kurdish question]] must exclude [[Imperialism|imperialist]] initiative in the [[Middle East]]. They claimed that the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] (PKK) has been completely under the control of the USA since the [[Gulf War]]. İP asserted that it is still possible to unite [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Kurds|Kurdish]] people in [[Turkey]] within the borders of an [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] [[nation state]] which will be established through a [[democratic revolution]]. According to the party, [[separatism]] became a tool of [[American imperialism]] in breaking national markets in the [[Third World]] in post-[[Cold War]] conditions. Although they traversed separation, they also defended democratic rights and freedoms of [[Kurds|Kurdish peoples]] in Turkey. For İP, the key tool to solve the Kurdish problem is to demolish "[[Feudalism|feudal]] structures" in Kurdish provinces and make peasants "free citizens".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=156 |title=Worker's Party (Turkey)&#124; 08.11.2012 |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108044818/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=156 |archive-date=2012-11-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=173 |title=Worker's Party (Turkey)&#124; 22.10.2013 |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022052401/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=173 |archive-date=2013-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=188 |title=Worker's Party (Turkey)&#124; 22.10.2013 |access-date=2013-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022030508/http://inter.ip.org.tr/lib/pages/detay.asp?goster=tbelgegoster&idbelge=188 |archive-date=2013-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 ==Wings==
-*The youth student wing of İP is known as ''Öncü Gençlik'' ([[Vanguard Youth (Turkey)|Vanguard Youth]]).
+*The youth student wing of İP was known as ''Öncü Gençlik'' ([[Vanguard Youth (Turkey)|Vanguard Youth]]).
-*The women wing of İP is known as ''Öncü Kadın'' (Vanguard Women).
+*The women wing of İP was known as ''Öncü Kadın'' (Vanguard Women).
 ==Media==
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 ==Election results==
-*[[1995 Turkish general election|1995 general election]]: 61,428 votes (0.22%)
-*[[1999 Turkish general election|1999 general election]]: 57,593 votes (0.18%)
-*[[2002 Turkish general election|2002 general election]]: 160,227 votes (0.51%)
-*[[2007 Turkish general election|2007 general election]]: 127,220 votes (0.36%)
+=== Parliamentary elections ===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+[[Grand National Assembly of Turkey]]
+!Election date
+!Leader
+!Votes
+! %
+!Seats
+|-
+![[1995 Turkish general election|1995]]
+| rowspan="4" |[[Doğu Perinçek]]
+|61,428
+|0.22%
+|{{Composition bar|0|550|hex=#BB0000}}
+|-
+![[1999 Turkish general election|1999]]
+|57,593
+|0.18%
+|{{Composition bar|0|550|hex=#BB0000}}
+|-
+![[2002 Turkish general election|2002]]
+|160,227
+|0.51%
+|{{Composition bar|0|550|hex=#BB0000}}
+|-
+![[2007 Turkish general election|2007]]
+|127,220
+|0.36%
+|{{Composition bar|0|550|hex=#BB0000}}
+|}
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}

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