- İbrahim Kaypakkaya
İbrahim Kaypakkaya was a leader of the Turkish
communist movement. He was a former member of theRevolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey . He later split from this party and established theCommunist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist .Following the military memorandum of 1971 the Turkish government cracked down the communist movement in Turkey. Kaypakkaya and several of his colleagues were arrested. The party machinery was destroyed. Kaypakkaya died in prison in 1973 allegedly because of
torture .Doctrine
His doctrinal views were based on splitting away from the neighboring Soviet Union's ideology and taking up
Maoism and supporting theCultural Revolution . As such, Kaypakkaya's life was heavily shaped by theSino-Soviet split .Kaypakkaya also took the position that there is a
national question involved with the Kurdish people.TKP/ML
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist re-organized between 1973 and 1978. The first party congress took place in 1978 ("TKP/ML I. Kongresi" in Turkish). In 1981 the second congress was organized ("TKP/ML II. Kongresi"). The party split following the second congress, the splinter taking up the name
Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey) .However it was nor the first neither the last split in the party. The
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist - Hareketi had already split in (1976) during the re-organisation period. Other splits followed the second congress:Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist - Revolutionary Proletarian (1987),Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (Maoist Party Centre) (1987) and Maoist Communist Party (1994).Today the organisation is listed among the 12 active terrorist organisation in Turkey as of 2007 according to Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of Directorate General for Security (Turkish police) [TÜRKİYE'DE HALEN FAALİYETLERİNE DEVAM EDEN BAŞLICA TERÖR ÖRGÜTLERİ: http://www.egm.gov.tr/temuh/terorgrup1.html] .
External links
* [http://www.aworldtowin.org/back_issues/1986-5/ibrahim_kaypakkaya_on_kurdistan.htm İbrahim Kaypakkaya on the Kurdish National Question]
* [http://www.kaypakkaya.org/anasayfa.php Kaypakkaya Sitesi]
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