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Arkeopolitics: Unearthing Politics
Çatalhöyük, 7400 BC, Konya, Turkey - UNESCO World Heritage Site. A very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, 7400 BC (photo 2019) -- Murat Özsoy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Erdem Denk Standing in the dust of Çatalhöyük —a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site known to archaeology since the 1960s, yet virtually non-existent in discussions about political science and law—a question haunted me: “How come no one told us about it?” My tr

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Apr 126 min read


Workers’ Representatives Council Established in Turkey
Images via the TKP On March 15, 2026, 322 workers—representing a wide range of sectors including metal, petrochemicals, textiles, food, logistics, warehousing, aviation, shipbuilding, construction, IT, communications, tourism, healthcare, education, office, and service work—came together from many provinces across the country. Alongside representatives of retirees, these workers, employed in both the private and public sectors, convened at the call of the Communist Party of T

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Mar 233 min read


Capitalism is a repulsive social system: Time to face this truth and take sides
Manifesto from the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) A 15-point statement by the TKP Central Committee on the most important current issues facing working people in Turkey — and the path forward: parting ways with the bourgeois class of Turkey Poverty, the cost of living, unemployment; workplace murders, mobbing and injustice; gambling, drugs, harassment, abuse, violence, femicides, corruption—in short, a society in full decay, and a country shaken by earthquakes and fires. The

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Feb 207 min read


Turkish Communists demand justice, accountability for earthquake victims
Image via the TKP We will neither forget nor forgive. We will hold them accountable! - Communist Party of Turkey Three years have passed… According to official figures, which are indeed unreliable, we lost exactly 53,537 citizens in the February 6 (2023) earthquakes; and over 107,000 people were injured. And this happened right before our very eyes. There were so many comprehensive scientific reports prepared; the destruction, losses, and crisis we experienced had all been pr

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Feb 92 min read


Greek Communists protest, demand justice for 15 migrants killed off the coast of Chios
Images via the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), speaking on February 4, 2026 in the plenary session of the Greek Parliament during the debate on the bill of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the “promotion of legal migration”, demanded that responsibility be assigned, those guilty be punished and a full investigation be carried out into the real circumstances of the tragedy in Chios. The incid

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Feb 62 min read


Turkish Communists protest in solidarity with Polish comrades
The legal proceedings targeting the Communist Party of Poland continue to be brought to public attention in Turkey by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) which held rallies and protests both before and after the anti-democratic verdict by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on December 3. The legal proceedings targeting the Communist Party of Poland continue to be brought to public attention in Turkey by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). On December 1, TKP Organization in Ank

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Dec 12, 20253 min read


PCC holds exchanges with parties from Belarus, Türkiye and Germany
Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Secretary of Organization, held discussions and signed agreements with representatives of the Belaya Rus party and the Communist parties of Türkiye and Germany. Images via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish To further the effective implementation of the exchange and cooperation agreement between the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)

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Oct 20, 20253 min read


Concert in honour of Mikis Theodorakis a comradely gathering of two communist parties and two peoples
Image via the KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on the evening of Sunday, September 21, a large gathering and concert...

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Sep 23, 20252 min read


Voices against the genocide: 16th session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel held
CPI Secretary-General Adel Amer in 2021 -- image via the CPI In the meeting of the 16th session of the Central Committee of the Communist...

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Jul 8, 20255 min read


A Call for Struggle against NATO: The Time Has Come, Today is the Day - TKP
Communist Party of Turkey statement: The imperialist powers have declared war on humanity under the guise of “the time has come.” They...

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Jun 23, 20253 min read


Indian, Turkish and Greek Communists denounce Israeli attacks on Iran
Aftermath of an Israeli strike on Tehran -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Communist parties in India, Turkey and...

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Jun 13, 20255 min read


Our People Will Not Kneel, Will Not Bow!: On the 12th anniversary of Gezi, the June Resistance in Turkey
Statement of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) Protests on 6 June, 2013, with the slogan "Do not submit" -- Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA...

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Jun 2, 20252 min read


We Do Not Kneel To Capitalists or Tyrants! This Is Our Call for May Day: TKP
We Do Not Kneel To Capitalists or Tyrants! This Is Our Call for May Day - Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) We are living through hard...

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May 1, 20252 min read


Workers Party of Ireland on the situation in Turkey
At a Central Executive Committee meeting of the Workers Party of Ireland, which took place at the weekend, the current situation in...

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Apr 16, 20252 min read


"The working class will reclaim the wealth it has created": Turkish Communists to billionaires
Letter from the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) to the 35 Capitalists from Turkey Listed Among the World’s Billionaires TKP had issued a...

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Apr 15, 20253 min read


We will not kneel!: TKP on recent developments in Turkey
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) has released a statement regarding recent political developments in the...

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Apr 7, 20255 min read


NATO has left behind a trail of war crimes, coups and massacres: TKP
Communist Party of Turkey on the 76th anniversary of NATO On its 76th anniversary, we do not forget “NATO within our country”: The real...

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Apr 4, 20252 min read


Investigating a Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full of Princes, but No Palaces in Sight
Başur Höyük in Türkiye By Brenna R. Hassett Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site...

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Mar 29, 20255 min read


Solidarity with the Communist Party of Turkey!
Statements from Austria, Canada, the Netherlands and Palestine. Communist parties in Canada, the Netherlands, Austria and Palestine are...

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Mar 27, 20254 min read


"Neither our people nor our Party will bow down": TKP
The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) reports that six of its members have been detained for participating in the recent protests in the...

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Mar 26, 20251 min read
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