Photos Of 6 October Meeting (Ankara)

[Kodzoquo]

Photos Of 6 October Meeting (Ankara)
Communist Party of Turkey

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(Edited by Kodzoquo at 5:11 pm on Oct. 20, 2002)

[IRANeAZAD5]

wow

Doesnt the turkish goverment crack down on anything communist?

[Maaja]

That's facinating! I wish I could be there....

[Kez]

this gives great hope,
this should be occuring in every town i every country!

[Kodzoquo]

Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) was doing politics with a different name but now they are attempting the elections with that name as a legal party.They have faced with some difficulties in their works (compared with other parties) but Communist Part of Turkey (TKP) is not an illegal party and there are some parties with same line with TKP...You can learn more detailed information about TKP from their website

http://www.tkp.org.tr/

http://www.tkp.org.tr/lang/english/index.asp

http://www.tkp.org.tr/arsiv/amblem/tkp.gif
Our main slogan for the elections:
"Where money has its tyranny, the people have their Communist Party"


(Edited by Kodzoquo at 2:38 pm on Oct. 21, 2002)

[James]

top banana!

[guerrillaradio]

I'm glad that there is some kinda leftist movement in Turkey. It is one of the most repressive nations in the world. Where does the Turkish Communist Party stand on the Kurdish issue??

[Kodzoquo]

TKP (Communist Party of Turkey) regards HADEP (Democratic Party of People /Pro-Kurdish
Democratic Left Party ) as a friend party and supports all the ideas of this party...
Furthermore, minorities in Turkey has obtained some rights in the coverage of European Union Adaptation Laws...( such as Education in Native Language, Tv & Radio Broadcast in Native Language). These issues are mainly discussed in these days...


(Edited by Kodzoquo at 3:43 pm on Oct. 23, 2002)

[Kodzoquo]

The people met in Ankara
Last Sunday seemed to be a “colorful” day for Turkish politics. Many of the parties, which will enter the elections that will be held on November 3rd, organized meetings and rallies all over Turkey.
Also, Communist Party of Turkey organized a big rally in Ankara on Sunday, October 6th, with the participation of thousands of people. However Communist Party of Turkey is not one of those parties and the rally in Ankara was not one of those meetings, either. The party is quite different from the others as the rally is quite distinct from the others.
But how about the other parties and their meetings? Can one distinguish the parties or their meetings from each other?

Guler: “Two parties are entering the elections.”

So the fundamental question arises for this election again, as Aydemir Guler, the president of the Communist Party of Turkey, asked in his speech during the rally: Do we need all those parties entering the elections? Or how many parties are competing in the elections?
Guler replied very accurately: Two!
On the one side there are the parties, which supports NATO and EU and on the other side there is the party which says the membership of Turkey into NATO will end on the very same day that the party takes the power and also the same party declares that socialist Turkey is a more realistic target than that of EU member Turkey.
On the one side there are the parties, which make plans to pay off the debts of Turkey to IMF and on the other side there is the party which says they will held only one meeting with IMF in order to cancel all those debts in that meeting.
On the one side there are the parties, which favor and propose different ways for inclusion to US plans in Iraq and on the other side there is the party, which says strictly no to war in Iraq and refuse to go for any bargain on a war.
So Guler said: “The order confusing such a simple matter by organizing a 23-party election. This election will be between two parties.”
The president of Communist Party of Turkey called everyone in Turkey to simplify the subject and make a choice between the order parties and CP of Turkey, so vote either for the war or the peace, either for the poverty or a humane and pride life, either for paying huge amount of debts or socialist Turkey, which will cancel all the debts.

Okuyan: “CP of Turkey is the vanguard party that will lead the people during the revolution.”

The questions continued in the speech of Kemal Okuyan, the General Secretary of the Central Committee. Okuyan asked firstly if this order should be changed and he told that everybody even the bourgeois parties in Turkey have been complaining about the system. So everybody agrees on that issue.
However in his second question Okuyan asked how we would change this system and what its alternative was. He answered that answers are obvious: The system would change by a revolution and the alternative was socialism.
And he finalized his questions asking who would do this. His answer was again quite simple: Turkish and Kurdish peoples, within the leadership of the vanguard revolutionary party would do it and Communist Party of Turkey had this will. Okuyan called everyone for not only
voting for the party in the elections but also joining it for the socialist power.

Baba: “The poverty will be vanished during the socialist power.”

Suleyman Baba, the organizational secretary of Communist Party of Turkey, was also among the speakers and in his effective speech emphasized the conflicts in Turkey between the poor and the rich and stressed the fact that the rich is rich in the capitalism because of the fact that the poor exists.
Baba told that Communist Party of Turkey was the party of workers, poor peasants, intellectuals and students and the party would destroy this irrational system where some persons become rich by exploiting the others.

“Wherever money has its tyranny…”

The people have their communist party in Turkey.
And the rally held in Ankara on October 6th despite all the efforts of State to ban and obstruct the rally was the first meeting of Communist Party of Turkey in Ankara for the elections, in which Communist Party of Turkey is entering the elections for the first time in her 82-year history.
However all the speakers in the rally emphasized the point that the elections was only a step in the long struggle of Communist Party of Turkey against capitalism till the revolution and a good opportunity for organizing and political propaganda.
So Communist Party of Turkey will continue to struggle after November 3rd, even with a faster tempo…
But workers, peasants, students, intellectuals, thousands of people, who had joined the rally were well aware of this fact, while shouting:
“Paranin saltanati varsa, halkin TKP’si var!” *
“Yaþasýn Türkiye Komünist Partisi!” **

* Wherever money has its tyranny, the people have CP of Turkey!
** Long live Communist Party of Turkey!

Communist Party of Turkey
Bureau of International Relations
October 7, 2002.

http://www.tkp.org.tr/en/spot/02_10_10.asp


The Secretariat of the Central Committee
(The Collective Leadership)
Aydemir Güler:
Born in 1961, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Bosphorous University. He joined the revolutionary circles during the high school period before the military junda in 1980. Guler was in the editorial board of Gelenek (Tradition) starting from the beginning from 1986. After the foundation of the Party for Socialist Turkey (STP) in 1992 he was elected to the political bureau and in 1993 he was elected as the president of the Party for Socialist Power (SÝP) (as STP was banned by the state). He continued to be the president of the party when the congress in 2001 decided to change the name of the party to the Communist Party of Turkey. (TKP).
He is the author of many articles in Gelenek, Sol (The Left), Komünist (Communist) and some daily newspapers.
He has also written two books on his own: The Last Crisis and The Unification of the Course (on the Kurdish Problem).
Two more books based on his works with Kemal Okuyan were published.
Kemal Okuyan:
Born in 1962, he graduated from the Political Sciences Department in Bosphorous University. He became a member of the youth section of the Workers Party of Turkey (TÝP) in 1976 and participated in the newly emerging group called Socialist Power in 1979. The cadres coming from this group were organized in the theoretical journal Gelenek and Okuyan had acted as a member of editorial board for many years. He was elected as the vice-President in 1992 of STP and then SÝP. During the congress in 2001, he was elected as the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Turkey.
He wrote many articles in different journals and newspapers.
He is the author of several books: The First Years in Soviet Foreign Policy, Leninist Organisational Theory, Understanding Stalin, The Seeking of Power of Socialism in Turkey.

Süleyman Baba:
Born in 1962, he graduated from the Medical Faculty in Istanbul University. He also became a member of the youth section of the Workers Party of Turkey in 1976 and participated the newly emerging group called Socialist Power in 1979. Süleyman Baba worked as a member of the editorial board of the journal Gelenek and was elected as Political Bureau member of the STP and continued to be so in SIP. During the Congress when the name of the party changed Baba was elected as the Organizational Secretary of the Party.
He wrote many articles for Gelenek.



(Edited by Kodzoquo at 3:41 pm on Oct. 23, 2002)

[CompadreGuerrillera]

i am glad the revolution is taking important steps lately, we all need to prepare and embrace the revolution!!!

[EuroStyle]

We will not pay the debts!
Before the elections that will be held on November 3rd, all of the parties competing for the elections are declaring their plans to manage the huge debt stock of Turkey. Except one of them…
Communist Party of Turkey is not included in the discussions in which parties and persons seek a way to pay the debts. Because Communist Party of Turkey has a simple solution for this severe problem.
Communist Party of Turkey declares that in the case of party's power, Turkey will not pay its foreign and domestic debts!
Is it that simple? Yes!
First of all, it is technically impossible for Turkey to grow economically while paying the debts. Turkey is one of the biggest debtors in the world, if the ratio of total debts to Gross National Product is under consideration.
Now, Turkey even cannot pay the interest of the debts without owing new debts.
So, if Turkey prefers to pay its debts, it has to continue "strict finance policy", which means doing nothing except paying the debts. No new investments, no social and public expenses… By the help of this policy, the state, simply, transfer the workers' surplus to the imperialists and bourgeoisie under the name of "debt".
As a result, a party offering to pay the debts, it does not matter how and when, actually offers that Turkey will not grow economically and will continue to live with high unemployment rate and deep poverty.
Communist Party of Turkey, after capturing the power, will fight against unemployment and poverty and start with collectivizing the means of production and canceling all the debts inherited from capitalist Turkey.
The parties planning to pay the debts back and the imperialists agree on one very important point: They all think that Turkey is capable of paying its debts.
Yes, they are right! Whatever the name of the financial and economical policy is, Turkey can pay its debts by exploiting the worker masses more and more.
Actually Communist Party of Turkey does not say that Turkey cannot pay its debts.
Communist Party of Turkey declares that Turkey shall not pay its debts!
Besides, CP of Turkey refuses to call this amount of money debt of Turkey. How can we call the money that has not been used for the people's interests as the debt of Turkey?
The amount, which was directly owed by the bourgeoisie when the Turkish state was acting as the guarantor, is still either in the pockets of the bourgeoisie or in their secret bank accounts in foreign banks. This money has not been used for investment; Turkish bourgeoisie has even lent the very same money to Turkish state with very expensive interest rates, forming the biggest domestic debts ever seen in the history of Turkey.
Is it fair to name this amount as "debt" and pay them?
The situation is not different in the case that Turkish state is the direct debtor. This money, also, has never been used for investment or social and public expenses except some death investments such as highways, which did not solve the transportation problem of our country and turned our country into a dump of automotive industry. The infrastructure investments made by the help of these debts such as telecommunication investments were actually the efforts to adapt the Turkish capitalism and so the Turkish market to the international capitalist system by developing the appropriate infrastructure for the movement of capital.
Not even a coin from these debts used for Turkish or Kurdish people except the guns and weapons bought and used against them.
How do Turkish and Kurdish peoples accept this money as their debt and pay them?
Actually, if we compare the total amount paid by Turkey up to now and the amount owed, we can see that not Turkey but imperialists are the debtors.
Turkey had paid 25 Billion USD more than it owed between the years 1985 and 2000. Even in 2001, which is the year Turkey had suffered from a severe economical crisis, Turkey had paid 10 Billion USD more than it owed. However Turkey broke its record in the first half of 2002: The amount paid is 8.5 Billion USD more than the debt only in the first half.
Even some simple numbers show who is the debtor at the moment: Imperialists and bourgeoisie owe billions of dollars to the workers in Turkey!
Communist Party of Turkey will collectivize all properties of bourgeoisie and imperialists in Turkey for this debt!
Communist Party of Turkey will lead Turkish and Kurdish peoples while they are struggling for their historical rights.
Communist Party of Turkey will talk to IMF only once more to tell them all the agreements they reached during the power of the bourgeoisie is invalid and Turkey will not pay its debts!
Is it really that simple?
Yes, it is.
Communist Party of Turkey
Bureau of International Relations
October 14, 2002.

[deimos]

How many percent will the TKP get in the elections?

[Kodzoquo]

First of all, I want to say that ,TKP is not an election party.TKP's vote percent not much but you know REVOLUTION is not come from election.

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Main Political Parties in Turkey

Communist Party of Turkey - Türkiye Komünist Partisi (TKP) - Communist

Liberty and Solidarity Party - Özgürlük ve Dayanýþma Partisi (ÖDP) - Leftist

Workers Party - Emeðin Partisi (EMEP) - Leftist

Democratic Party of People- Halkýn Demokrasi Partisi (HADEP) - Pro-Kurdish

Democratic Left Party - Demokratik Sol Parti (DSP) - Social Democrat

Republican People's Party - Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) - Social Democrat

Motherland Party - Anavatan Partisi (ANAP) - Rightist

True Path Party - Doðru Yol Partisi (DYP) - Rightist

Saadet Partisi (SP) - Fundamentalist

Justice and Development Party - Adalet ve Kalkýnma Partisi (AKP) - Fundamentalist

Nationalist Movement Party - Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP) - Fascist

Grand Unity Party - Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP) - Fascist



(Edited by Kodzoquo at 10:12 am on Oct. 26, 2002)

[deimos]

which of these parties is the worst?(is suppose its the mhp.ive heard taht the are kemalistic)

[Kodzoquo]

yes, right... MHP is worst party...



(Edited by Kodzoquo at 6:50 pm on Oct. 26, 2002)

[Kodzoquo]

(Edited by Kodzoquo at 6:37 pm on Oct. 26, 2002)

[Libertarius]

Let's just hope a lot of people vote communist. Can you find anything about the party's leader? I'd hate to see Turkey end up with a tyrant like Stalin as their leader, and give communism an even worse name.

Think of the reprocussions if that party comes to power. I don't even think they'lll need to do anything significant, but the States will start oppressing them soon enough.

[Libertarius]

I'm ready, personally. I'd like to know if the disgruntled proletariat and lower bourgeois in the US are ready to fight imperialism in their country, they are a considerable force gettign wiser all the time. No longer do they blindly swallow the propoganda put forth buy the Bush Administration, they are thinking for themselves, and some true intellectuals are beginning to broadcast the truth. I encourage any American who doesn't like domestic/foreign policies to do what they can in getting this movement into some momentum.