Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (, TİİKP) was a Maoist communist party in Turkey. TİİKP was founded in 1969 by the ("Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment") group that had broken away from DEV-GENÇ ("Revolutionary Youth"). The chairman of TİİKP was Doğu Perinçek. TİİKP was an illegal party.

The central publications of the party were and ("Dawn").

Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey

In 1972, İbrahim Kaypakkaya and others broke with TİİKP and formed ("Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)").

Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey

In 1978, TİİKP was succeeded by ("Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey" or TİKP). TİKP later became a legal party and became ("Socialist Party" or SP). In 1992, ("Workers' Party" or İP) was formed as a continuation of TİKP and SP. In 2015 Workers' Party changed its name to Patriotic Party.

Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey

See also

List of illegal political parties in Turkey

References

Defunct Maoist parties

Political parties established in 1971

Defunct communist parties in Turkey

Banned political parties in Turkey

Banned communist parties

Economic history of Turkey

Maoist organizations in Turkey