Historical issues arising from the Stalinist Turkish Communist Party’s mass meeting in Ankara
Monday, February 9, 2026
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The Turkish Communist Party (TKP) held a large gathering titled “TKP is challenging!” at the Congresium Congress Center in Ankara on February 1, 2026, with Aydemir Güler highlighting the party's founding in 1920 as the Turkish section of the Communist International and the Bolsheviks' support for Turkish national liberation.
Leading party member Aydemir Güler cited the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, revealed by Leon Trotsky, as an example of imperialist powers' plans to divide up Ottoman territories, and praised the Bolsheviks for removing Russia from the occupiers of Anatolia, as stated in his speech at the event.
The TKP's shift towards supporting the bourgeois national Kemalist regime after 1922, led by former General Secretary Şefik Hüsnü, has been criticized for abandoning the party's political independence and goal of a "republic of workers' and peasants' councils", with Şefik Hüsnü's class-collaborationist line being influenced by Joseph Stalin's nationalist theory of "socialism in one country", as noted by the World Socialist Web Site.
