Workers' Party (Turkey)
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Workers' Party
İşçi Partisi |
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| Leader | Doğu Perinçek |
| Founded | July 10, 1992 |
| Dissolved | February 15, 2015 |
| Preceded by | Socialist Party |
| Succeeded by | Patriotic Party |
| Headquarters | Toros Sokak No: 9 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| 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!") |
The Workers' Party (Turkish: İşçi Partisi) was a political party in Turkey led by Doğu Perinçek. İP has 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). They are known as "Aydınlıkçılar" (Clarifiers) due to their daily newspaper Aydınlık ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment") that has a circulation of 63.000.
During a general assembly on 15 February 2015, the Workers' Party was rebranded and changed its name to Patriotic Party, with Perinçek remaining as leader.
The İP traditionally combined Maoist rhetoric with a hardline Kemalism. Although they accept scientific socialism as their main ideology, they have a more 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. They admire the founder of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (who is considered a "left-wing bourgeois democratic revolutionary" by the Chairman Perinçek ) as much as they admire Marxist revolutionary leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. They also promote alliances with nations they believe have anti-imperialist tendencies (such as Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba) and oppose the existence of American expansionism - (such as India, China and Russia).
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