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Main leftist and/or illegal political organisations
IMPORTANT. This section consists of the names of both legal and illegal organisations. Those organisations which are known to be illegal have this fact recorded in their entry below. It is not possible to have a fully comprehensive list of illegal parties, because of their constantly changing and clandestine nature.
Information on the current situation regarding leftist Parties in Turkey can be found on www.broadleft.org/tr.htm [52a]
http://www.electionworld.org/turkey.htm [79]
For general information on terrorist organisations in Turkey: http://www.teror.gen.tr/english/turkey/islamic/organisations/ibdac.html [65] (now only accessible through: http://web.archive.org/web/20050206180202/http://www.teror.gen.tr/english/turkey/index.html)
The Turkish State sees three main threats: militant Kurdish nationalism/separatism; militant Marxist-Leninist groups; and armed radical Islamic movements. [2a]
Brief glossary
cephe = front
devrimci = revolutionary
emek = labour
halk = people
hareket = movement
işçi = worker
köylü = peasant, villager
kurtuluş= liberation
örgüt = organisation, association
özgür = free
özgürlük = freedom, liberty
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