Kemal Okuyan
General Secretary Kemal Okuyan | |
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| General Secretary of Communist Party of Turkey | |
| In office 2001 [1] – 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Aydemir Güler |
| Succeeded by | Collective leadership |
| Member of Communist Party of Turkey General Committee | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 İzmir |
| Nationality | Turkish |
Kemal Okuyan (born 1962) is secretary-general of the Communist Party of Turkey.
Youth[]
Through his childhood and youth, he was in İzmir and İstanbul. He graduated from Bosphorous University Political Sciences Department.
Political life[]
He started his political activities in Workers Party of Turkey. After criticising the party's politics based on socialist revolution strategy 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.[2] After the 1980 Turkish coup d'état this group ceased to work. In 1986 he and his comrades founded the Gelenek journal around which they have formed a nucleus of a traditional communist party.[3]
In the beginning of 1990's he and his comrades founded Party for Socialist Turkey and later on Party of Socialist Power. This party changed its name to Communist Party of Turkey in 2001 Congress. Okuyan is still working in the leading councils of the party acting as secretary-general.
Works[]
He is a columnist in the soL Portal a newspaper portal. He also wrote many books about political events in Turkey and the former socialist world.
Books[]
- Texts Against Democracy (Demokrasiye Aykırı Yazılar)
- What Does The Soldiers' Party Want? (Asker Partisi Ne İstiyor?)
- Civic Society: Development of State (Sivil Toplum: Devletin Büyümesi)
- Understanding Stalin (Stalin'i Anlamak)
- The Understanding of Power of Socialism in Turkey (Türkiye'de Sosyalizmin İktidar Arayışı)
- The Book of What To Do-ists (Ne Yapmalı'cılar Kitabı)
- Theory of Socialist Revolution (Sosyalist Devrim Teorisi)
- Anti-Thesis on 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 Exam of Patriotism of The Left of Turkey (Türkiye Solunun Yurtseverlik Sınavı)
- In The Shadow of Revolution: Berlin-Warsaw-Ankara 1920 (Devrimin Gölgesinde: Berlin-Varşova-Ankara 1920)
References[]
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20011212154214/http://www.tkp.org.tr/
- ^ Online copy of the first issue from October 1979 Accessed on 13th January 2021
- ^ Kemal Okuyan profile in Yazılama Press site Accessed on 13th January 2021
External links[]
- Okuyan's writings on "soL" newsportal (in Turkish)
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