Workers' Party (Turkey)

The Workers' Party ( ISCI Partisi, ip) is a socialist party in Turkey.

She walked out of the " Workers' and Peasants Party of Turkey " ( TİKP ) and the " Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey " ( TİİKP ) out. Out it is of Dogu Perinçek. In the 2002 parliamentary elections the Labour Party achieved 0.52 % of the vote in the parliamentary elections in 2007, 0.36 % ..

Philosophy and goals

Party program

The party program of the IP provides for the creation of a classless society with the help of scientific socialism in the first two points. At all levels of society is to be installed with the help of people's councils according to the program, the people rule. The plan is to withdrawal from NATO. She refuses to join the European Union and advocates the planned economy.

Ideology

In the preface to their "national government program " feared the IP for the abolition of the Turkish nation-state, as the sovereignty will the U.S. and the European Union transfer. The Turkish nation increasingly falling apart into ethnic groups and religious currents. Also, the Kemalist revolution was threatened, which is described there as the cornerstone "of our nation-state, our nation, our homeland, our national economy and our army ." The ip stands up for the rights of the Kurds, for example by advocating to allow the Kurdish language in the classroom. The party also denies the genocide of the Armenians.

In connection with the investigation into the alleged nationalist terrorist organization Ergenekon Perinçek and other leading party members were arrested in early 2008.

Structures

The party chairman Perinçek heads the Central Committee and the Presidium of the Workers' Party. Another executive body is the "Central Disciplinary Committee" (chaired by Kılıç Arslan ). The current Secretary General is called Ferit İlsever. The youth organization of the party is called Öncü Gençlik. The IP publishes the daily newspaper Aydınlık, the theory organ Teori and popular science monthly magazine Bilim ve Ütopya. The Labour Party has the publisher Kaynak Yayınları, which publishes alongside the works of members of the IP Marxist and Kemalist classics and religion critical works. It also operates on the television Ulusal channel.