Kemal Okuyan (born 18 May 1962) is the General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).
Youth
Through his childhood and youth, he was in İzmir and Istanbul. After studying in the
Bornova Anatolian High School, he graduated from the
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...
Political Sciences
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...
Department.
Political life
He started his political activities in the
Workers' Party of Turkey. After criticising the party's politics based on national democratic revolution, he took part in a splinter group formed around the journal ''Socialist Power (Sosyalist İktidar)'' and he was among the first writers of the journal. After the
1980 Turkish coup d'état
The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum.
During ...
this group ceased to work. In 1986 he and his comrades founded the ''Gelenek'' journal around which they formed the nucleus of a traditional communist party.
In the early 1990s, Okuyan and his comrades founded the . This party was banned by the
Constitutional Court of Turkey
The Constitutional Court of Turkey ( Turkish: ''Anayasa Mahkemesi'', sometimes abbreviated as ''AYM'') is the highest legal body for constitutional review in Turkey. It "examines the constitutionality, in respect of both form and substance, of law ...
in 1993. That year, they founded the Socialist Power Party. This party changed its name to the
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) following the 2001 Congress. After the TKP split in 2014, he resigned as general secretary and founded the
Communist Party with
Aydemir Güler
Aydemir Güler (; born 1961) is a Turkish communist politician and was the leader of Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).
Biography
Güler was born in 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from St. Joseph High School and Department of Economics ...
.
TKP'nin yerine Komünist Parti ve Halkın Türkiye Komünist Partisi
/ref> Okuyan was elected general secretary of the Central Committee after the Communist Party of Turkey was rebuilt in 2017.
Works
He is a columnist in the ''soL Portal'', a leftist newspaper portal. He also wrote many books about political events in Turkey and former Marxist–Leninist states. His works have been influential on the Turkish left.
Books
* Texts Against Democracy (Demokrasiye Aykırı Yazılar)
* What Does The Soldiers' Party Want? (Asker Partisi Ne İstiyor?)
* Civic Society: Development of the State (Sivil Toplum: Devletin Büyümesi)
* Understanding Stalin (Stalin'i Anlamak)
* Socialism's Search for Power in Turkey (Türkiye'de Sosyalizmin İktidar Arayışı)
* The Book of What Is To Be Done-ists (Ne Yapmalı'cılar Kitabı)
* Theory of Socialist Revolution (Sosyalist Devrim Teorisi)
* Anti-Theses on the Dissolution of the Soviet Union (Sovyetler Birliği'nin Çözülüşü Üzerine Anti-Tezler)
* The Left Stuck Between Ergenekon and AKP (Ergenekon ve AKP Arasında Sıkışan Sol)
* The Patriotism Exam of The Left in Turkey (Türkiye Solunun Yurtseverlik Sınavı)
* In The Shadow of Revolution: Berlin-Warsaw-Ankara 1920 (Devrimin Gölgesinde: Berlin-Varşova-Ankara 1920)
Articles
* Thinking aloud on the "World Communist Movemen
* Development of Anti-communism in Turkey during the “Foundation” perio
* October Revolution and the Vanguard Party – Some historical and theoretical conclusion
* The 100th year of a party pursuing revolutio
* The Speech of Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU: Socialism rendered defenceles
References
External links
Okuyan's writings on "soL" newsportal
1962 births
Living people
Communist Party of Turkey (current) politicians
Turkish journalists
Turkish communists
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