Socialist Liberation Party | |
Leader: | İsmail Kaplan |
Ideology: | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Headquarters: | Ankara |
Country: | Turkey |
Native Name: | Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi |
Native Name Lang: | Turkish |
Abbreviation: | 1920 TKP[1] |
Predecessor: | Ürün |
Slogan: | Bütün ülkelerin işçileri ve ezilen halklar, birleşin! (Workers of all countries and oppressed people, unite!) |
Position: | Far-left |
Membership Year: | 2023 |
Membership: | 96[2] |
The Socialist Liberation Party (Turkish: Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi, 1920 TKP) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Turkey.
The party was founded as "Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi" on 7 February 2012. The party changed its name to "Türkiye Komünist Partisi" on 15 February 2012.[3] The Constitutional Court did not allow the renaming, because there was already a party with same name, i.e. Türkiye Komünist Partisi.[4] Following that, the party started using the name "Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi" again and changed the abbreviation from TKP 1920 to 1920 TKP.[5]
Until 2016, the Socialist Liberation Party was one of the components in the United June Movement, a political coalition initiative which was founded after Gezi Park revolt.[6] [7]