Labour Party (Turkey)
The Labour Party (in Turkish: Emek Partisi, EMEP) is a communist party in Turkey. Its chairperson is Selma Gürkan. The party was founded as Emek Partisi (Labour Party, EP) in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name Emeğin Partisi (Party of Labour, EMEP), the same year. In 2005, the name "Emek Partisi" was reinstalled after the European Court of Human Rights held the ban was a violation of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Labour Party Emek Partisi | |
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| Chairwoman | Selma Gürkan |
| Founded | 25 November 1996 |
| Headquarters | Fevzi Çakmak 1 Sokak No: 15/5, Ankara, Turkey |
| Membership (2024) | 5,165 |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | HDK Labour and Freedom Alliance (Since 2022) |
| International affiliation | ICMLPO IMCWP |
| Colours | Red |
| Grand National Assembly | 2 / 600
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| Website | |
| www.emep.org | |
Its ideological stance is in accord with the line of ICMLPO. In its programme, EMEP identifies its goal as creating an "Independent and Democratic Turkey". The party publishes the daily Evrensel (lit. 'Universal'). The party is one of the participants in the People's Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012. It is one of the few political parties in Turkey that recognize the Armenian deportations of 1915 as genocide.