Maoist Communist Party (Turkey)

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 TKP (ML), this led to incidents such as the absence of TKP/ML from the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.

In 2003 TKP (ML) took the name Maoist Communist Party (MKP). MKP took up the legacy of TKP (ML), weathered severe battles, and over the years gained influence, becoming a significant Maoist organisation in Turkey and North Kurdistan. Though information on the organization is limited, it seems that there was a split in the MKP after the dissolution of the RIM.

Today, and for some years, there are two such organizations which consider themselves to descend from the TKP (ML): the "Maoist Komünist Parti" and the "Maoist Komünist Partisi".

Compared to the "Parti", the "Maoist Komünist Partisi" is ideologically close to the TKP/ML, especially the ideas of its founder Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. However, it is also of the opinion, which is a somewhat unique and questionable perspective given his common association with the TKP/ML, that Kaypakkaya had 'primarily' led their own predecessor, the TKP (ML).

In comparison to the "Partisi", the "Maoist Komünist Parti", while claiming no direct links to the PKK, and having a separate ideology, does seem to have a political agenda which prioritizes them more, considering them a primary force of New Democracy.

Like TKP/ML, MKP is determined to carry out a People's War:

"In the final analysis, we are aware that with the devastating power and angry fire of our People's War, we will destroy the reactionary order and overthrow the reactionary class powers."https://maoistroad.blogspot.com/2013/06/maoist-komunist-partisi-mkp-taksimdeki.html

The armed wing of the major group, the "Partisi", is the People's Liberation Army (HKO). In 2013 the Party's 3rd congress established the People's Partisan Forces (PHG) as a second, urban, armed wing.

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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).{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-SZ4FQOE7A |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/E-SZ4FQOE7A |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=MAOİST KOMÜNİST PARTİSİ-MKP/HKO|date=13 February 2007|work=YouTube|access-date=7 March 2015}}{{cbignore}}

Maoist Youth Union ({{langx|tr|Maoist Gençlik Birliği}}) is the youth organization of MKP.

Maoist Women's Union ({{langx|tr|Maoist Kadınlar Birliği}}) - is women's organization of MKP.

The party has two periodicals titled Devrimci Demokrasi (Revolutionary Democracy) and Sınıf Teorisi (Theory of the Class).{{cite web|url=http://www.broadleft.org/tr.htm|title=Leftist Parties of Turkey|work=broadleft.org|access-date=6 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730090448/http://www.broadleft.org/tr.htm|archive-date=30 July 2013|url-status=dead}}

Federation of Democratic Rights ({{langx|tr|Demokratik Haklar Federasyonu}} abbreviated as DHF) - is independent mass organization related to MKP.

In March 2009, Tamer Bilici, a doctor in service during a 2000 hunger strike in Kandıra F-type prison, was punished{{Clarify|reason=vague|date=October 2015}} by MKP-HKO for being a public enemy because he was blamed for deaths and permanent disabilities of inmates.{{cite web |url=http://www.sosyalistforum.net/politik-gundem/23829-mkp-f-tipi-katillerinden-biri-cezalandirildi.html |title=MKP: F Tipi katillerinden biri cezalandırıldı |access-date=2012-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219115120/http://www.sosyalistforum.net/politik-gundem/23829-mkp-f-tipi-katillerinden-biri-cezalandirildi.html |archive-date=2014-12-19 |url-status=dead }} In September 2009 MKP-HKO claimed responsibility for the death of a retired colonel, Aytekin İçmez. In June 2015, MKP-PHG killed former colonel Fehmi Altinbilek.{{cite web |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalDetayV3&ArticleID=956938&CategoryID=77 |title=MKP-HKO emekli albayı öldürdü |author=Hüseyin TÜCCAR- Erdoğan PAÇİN |date=2009-09-30 |publisher=Sabah |access-date=26 August 2012}}

The organisation is listed among the 12 active terrorist organisations in Turkey as of 2007 according to Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of Directorate General for Security (Turkish police).TÜRKİYE'DE HALEN FAALİYETLERİNE DEVAM EDEN BAŞLICA TERÖR ÖRGÜTLERİ: {{cite web|url=http://www.egm.gov.tr/temuh/terorgrup1.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-08-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114042731/http://www.egm.gov.tr/temuh/terorgrup1.html |archive-date=2013-01-14 }}

A study carried out by the Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of Directorate General for Security over a sample of files about people convicted of being terrorists under Turkish laws including 826 militants from the organisation and the three other currently active left-wing organisations (see reference 1) 65% of the members are aged 14 to 25, 16,8% 25 to 30 and 17,5% are older than 30. University graduates make up 20,4% of the members, high school graduates 33,5%, secondary school graduates 14%, primary school graduates 29.9% and illiterates 1,9% (while they have no sampled literate non-graduate members).Zaman. 25.12.2007. "Dikkat: Hangi yasadışı örgüte kimler üye olur?". http://www.iyibilgi.com/haber.php?haber_id=47595 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322185613/http://www.iyibilgi.com//haber.php?haber_id=47595 |date=2016-03-22 }}

• Maoist insurgency in Turkey

{{Reflist}}

{{Commons category|Maoist Komünist Partisi}}

• {{Official website|http://mkp-bim.info/}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170923145619/https://www.halkingunlugu1.org/ Halkin Gunlugu - news portal related to MKP]
• [http://revcom.us/a/v24/1181-1190/1187/mkp.htm First Congress of the Maoist Communist Party of Turkey], Revolutionary Worker #1187
• [http://www.bannedthought.net/India/PeoplesMarch/PM1999-2006/archives/2001/apr2k1/History.htm History of the Communist Movement in Turkey] People's March

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