Kemal Okuyan meeting with Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, May 8 Speech by Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) General Secretary Kemal Okuyan at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties Dear comrades, I would like to begin by thanking the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, Comrade Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist

Image via X Statement by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) Central Committee following the AKP government's signing of the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” The AKP government has signed the so-called “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” and thereby dragged our country into a new and extremely dangerous military adventure. The agreement’s most important declared clause treats an armed attack on any one of the three countries as an attack on all of them. The AKP has thus placed Tu

Stefanos Stefanou speaking at the event -- image via AKEL on Instagram Speech by the General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) Stefanos Stefanou at the mass event to denounce the Cyprus 1974 coup and invasion anniversary. Wednesday, 15 July 2026 We have gathered here for yet another year at the event to denounce the twin crimes committed against our homeland: the treacherous coup by the Athens junta and EOKA B, and Turkey’s barbaric invasion. We have

Tanks during the events of July, 1974 Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) on the 52 years since the fascist coup of 15 July 1974 in Cyprus The shame of treason will forever accompany the fascists in Greece and Cyprus who colluded with Turkey and shed the blood of our people. The tragic anniversary of 15 July serves as a reminder of the greatest betrayal suffered by Cyprus and its people, when the fascist coup was carried out by the Greek Junta and EOKA B, paving the wa

Trump and Carney at the NATO summit, July 8, 2026 -- public domain image As the NATO summit draws to a close in Ankara, Turkey, the Communist Party of Canada reiterates its condemnation of this offensive, warmongering alliance, which – now more than ever – is fulfilling its role as the global army of the United States. Today, NATO is pushing us further toward the abyss of a world war that could turn nuclear. Flashpoints are multiplying. From Ukraine, caught between the Wester

Statements from Communist and workers' parties in Jordan, Ireland, the USA, the Netherlands and Poland. Image via the TKP ​In solidarity with The Turkish Communist Party and in opposition to the NATO summit and policies of repression ​The Jordanian Communist Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the campaign of arrests and repression directed against members and supporters of The Turkish Communist Party following their participation in popular demonstrations and prot

Image via the TKP Stop the Repression Against TKP and Anti-NATO Protesters in Turkey We, the undersigned Communist and Workers' Parties, strongly condemn the repression carried out by the Turkish authorities against the demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) in Ankara in protest of the NATO Summit. The violent police intervention, the injuries inflicted on demonstrators, and the detention of 145 communists including one member of the Central Committ

Images via the TKP At the International Anti-NATO Summit organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) on July 4 in İstanbul, communist and workers' parties from NATO member states and the European Communist Action, together with international peace and youth organizations, came together ahead of the NATO Summit in Ankara. Participants called for a common struggle against imperialist war policies, the arms race, and NATO military bases. In the meeting, organized under the

Image via the TKP Solidarity With the TKP and the Comrades Arrested and Injured in the Struggle Against NATO: Communist Party of the Workers of Spain A new NATO Summit will be held on July 7-8, in Ankara (Turkey). The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) has organized an anti-NATO Summit in the country, with hundreds of activities, public events, exhibitions, demonstrations, and even an international event, running from July 4 to 12. The imperialist NATO event is marked by the rei

Image via the TKP The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) defied a blanket ban on demonstrations imposed across central Ankara ahead of the NATO summit, leading anti-NATO protests in six cities on Saturday despite a heavy police presence and mass detentions. Hundreds of TKP members gathered in central Ankara at the time and place previously announced by the party, despite extraordinary security measures that had effectively placed parts of the capital under a de facto state of em

Get out, NATO! Protest before the summit on June 13 in Ankara By Tunç Türel in Ankara. junge Welt, July 2, 2026. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Ahead of the NATO summit on July 7 and 8, the Turkish government is transforming the capital into a security zone. Protests are banned, socialists arrested, social media blocked. While billions have been made available for official transit routes, runways and facades, residents are paying the price with bans, controls, traffic blo

The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) has designated July 4-12 as the Anti-NATO Summit in response to the NATO Summit taking place in Ankara within the same week. As part of the week’s activities, the party will organize marches and public events in several cities across the country, while also hosting an international summit in İstanbul. The summit will bring together communist and workers’ parties from NATO member states, along with representatives of the World Peace Council

With reports from the Communist Party of Turkey and the Communist Party of Greece Image of the rally via the TKP on X İstanbul rises against NATO: “We will not allow this country to quietly host a NATO Summit” Hundreds gathered in İstanbul at the call of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) to protest the NATO Summit. Addressing the event, TKP General Secretary Kemal Okuyan said, "We will not allow this country to quietly host a NATO Summit." As opposition continues to grow ag

The famous wall painting from Çatalhöyük depicts tightly clustered domestic houses beneath an erupting volcano. Photo/Illustration by Asya Denk. By Erdem Denk The theme for an exhibition that opened on June 4, 2026, at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye), World’s First City Plan/Map, as part of my Arkeopolitics initiative, was met with reservations by a group of students from the Middle East Technical University’s faculty of architecture. They questione

“Working people refuse to pay the price for Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East,” said the European Trade Confederation. Rally in the Philippines -- image via news video screenshot By Brad Reed, Common Dreams May Day demonstrations across the world on Friday denounced the US-Israeli war against Iran, which has caused a global energy crisis that is disproportionately harming working-class people. Among the earliest May Day demonstrations took place in the Philippines, and a

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

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

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

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

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