Maoist Communist Party (Turkey)
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Maoist Communist Party
Maoist Komünist Partisi |
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| Abbreviation | MKP |
| Founder | Cüneyt Kahraman as TKP (M-L) Cafer Cangöz as MKP |
| Founded | 18 April 1994 as TKP(M-L) 15 September 2002 as MKP |
| Split from | Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist |
| Youth wing | Maoist Youth Union |
| Women's wing | Maoist Women's Union |
| Armed wing | People's Libration Army People's Partisan Forces |
| Ideology | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement |
| European affiliation | Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Balkans |
| International affiliation | Revolutionary Internationalist Movement |
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Maoist Communist Party of Turkey (Turkish: Maoist Komünist Partisi abbreviated as MKP) is a Maoist insurgent organization in Turkey. It is the most significant of the Maoist organisations in Turkey; it upholds the legacy of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. It maintains two armed wings: the People's Partisan Forces (Turkish: Partizan Halk Güçleri or PHG) and People's Libration Army (Turkish: Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu or HKO). MKP is a part of Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and participates in the Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Balkans.
MKP emerged in 1987 as TKP/ML - Eastern Anatolia Regional Committee (Doğu Anadolu Bölge Komitesi in Turkish, abbreviated as DABK) and broke away from the declining TKP/ML organisation. In 1993 it reunified with TKP/ML, but this proved unsuccessful; it broke away again in 1994 to become the Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist–Leninist) [abbreviated as TKP(ML) - not to be confused with TKP/ML]. After an increasing ideological divide between the TKP/ML and the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the Committee of RIM (CoRIM) eventually ejected the ideologically stagnant TKP/ML. In 2003 TKP (ML) morphed into the Maoist Communist Party (MKP). MKP became a member of RIM and over the years gained influence becoming the most significant Maoist organisation in Turkey. MKP is determined to carry out a "Socialist People's War" in Turkey with its armed wing the People's Liberation Army. In 2013 the Party's 3rd congress established the People's Partisan Forces as a second armed wing.
The party has two armed wings: in rural areas Peoples' Liberation Army (Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu in Turkish, abbreviated as HKO) and in cities People's Partisan Forces (Partizan Halk Güçleri in Turkish, abbreviated as PHG).
Maoist Youth Union (Turkish: Maoist Gençlik Birliği) is the youth organization of MKP.
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