See Communist party (disambiguation) for other similarly named groups.

Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist (in Turkish

Turkish language

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: Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi/Leninist) is an illegal communist party

Communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

 in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. TKEP/L was founded on September 1, 1990, following a split in the Communist Labour Party of Turkey

Communist Labour Party of Turkey

Communist Labour Party of Turkey is an illegal communist party in Turkey. TKEP was founded on May 1, 1980 by the People's Liberation Army of Turkey-Unity in Struggle . THKO-MB was the pro-Soviet faction that developed out of the crumbles of the original THKO.The general secretary of TKEP was...

 (TKEP).

Whereas TKEP had started orientating itself towards legal work, TKEP/L wanted to continue armed struggle. It formed an armed wing, the Leninist Guerrilla Units (Leninist Gerila Birliği). LGB carries out occasional attacks, but does not engage in regular guerrilla warfare. The latest major action by LGB was on December 19, 2000 when LGB attacked a MHP

Nationalist Movement Party

The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote...

 party office in Istanbul

Istanbul

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. One MHP member was killed and three injured. The attack was vengeance for the killing of two TKEP/L prisoners.

TKEP/L has an organization inside the Turkish prisons, and TKEP/L prisoners have taken part in death fasts mobilized by various revolutionary groups.

The youth wing of TKEP/L is called 13 March Young Communist League (13 Mart Genç Komünistler Birliği).

See also

• Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist)
  Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist)
  Bangladesh Communist Party , a communist party in Bangladesh. BCP was founded in Calcutta in the fall of 1971, by several small communist splinter fractions. The core of founders of BCP consisted of Kazi Jafar Ahmad, Rashid Khan Menon and Ranu from the Communist Samanay Kendra, Amul Sen and Nazrul...
  
  
• List of illegal political parties in Turkey
• Communist Party of Turkey
  Communist Party of Turkey
  The Communist Party of Turkey was a political party in Turkey. The party was founded by Mustafa Suphi in 1920, and was soon to be banned. It worked as a clandestine opposition party throughout the Cold War era, and was persecuted by the various military regimes. Many intellectuals, like Nazım...
  
  for a list of communist parties in Turkey

External links

• TKEP/L website