Maoist Communist Party is a clandestine communist organization in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. It was founded in 1994 when a faction split from Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist

Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist

Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist is a clandestine communist organization in Turkey currently waging a war against the Turkish Government. It was founded in 1972 with İbrahim Kaypakkaya as its first leader...

 (Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist in Turkish, abbreviated as TKP/ML).

MKP is a part of Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

The defunct Revolutionary Internationalist Movement was an international Communist organization which upheld a version of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism founded in 1984 sought to "struggle for the formation of a Communist International of a new type, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism"...

 and participates in the Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Balkans.

Organisation

The armed wing of the party is named Peoples' Liberation Army (Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu in Turkish, abbreviated as HKO).

The party has two periodicals titled Devrimci Demokrasi (Revolutionary Democracy) and Sınıf Teorisi (Theory of the Class).

Designation as a Terrorist Organisation

The organisation is listed among the 12 active terrorist organisations in Turkey as of 2007 according to Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of Directorate General for Security (Turkish police

Law enforcement in Turkey

Law enforcement in Turkey is carried out by several departments and agencies, all acting under the command of the Prime Minister of Turkey or mostly the Minister of Internal Affairs....

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Human Resources

A study carried out by the Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of Directorate General for Security over a sample of files about people convicted of being a terrorist under Turkish laws including 826 militants from the organisation and the three other currently active left-wing organisations (see reference 1) 65 % of the members are aged 14 to 25, 16,8 % 25 to 30 and 17,5 % are older than 30. University graduates make up 20,4 % of the members, high school graduates 33,5 %, secondary school graduates 14 %, primary school graduates 29,9 % and illiterates 1,9 % (while they have no sampled literate non-graduate members) .

External links

• Party website
• A World to Win
• Balkan Conference