Country of origin information report Turkey March 2007

TKP/M-L Kons. Kes (Communist Party of Turkey/ Marxist-Leninist Conferencing Body) (Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist Koferansçi Kesim).

Illegal. [48]

TKP/ML (Maoist Parti Merkezi) (Communist Party of Turkey/ Marxist-Leninist (Maoist Party Centre)) (Türkiye Komünist Partisi/ Marksist Leninist (Maoist Parti Merkezi))

Illegal. Split of TKP/ML in 1987. Political military. Maoist. Publication - “Iktidara”. [48] [52b]

TODEF See DHKP-C
Toplumsal Özgürlük Platformu (Social Freedom Platform).

Part of ÖDP (see Annex B). [52a]

TSIP (Socialist Workers Party of Turkey) (Türkiye Sosyalist Isçi Partisi).

Founded 1993. Legal. Communist. Publication - “Kitle” (Mass, Crowd). [52a]

Türkiye’de Marksist-Leninist Parti (Marxist Leninist Party in Turkey).

Founded in 1980 as TKP/ML Spartakus. Stalinist. Publications - “Spartakus”, “Bilimsel Komünizmin Sancaği Altinda”. [52b]

UIC (Union of Islamic Communities)

Founded 1983. Its initial goal is to unite Muslims living in Europe under one roof. Its main goal is to establish a Federal Islamic State in Anatolia. Its founder Cemalettin Kaplan declared himself the “caliph” of all Muslims in 1994, and from then on UIC called itself the “Caliphate State”. After he died in 1995, his son Metin Kaplan replaced him as “caliph”. Some members of UIC have rejected Metin Kaplan’s caliphate, and UIC has divided into three groups. UIC has 200-300 members in Turkey, largely in Istanbul, Konya, Adana, Sivas, Aydin, and Maraş, and 1300 members in Germany. In Germany in 1999 Metin Kaplan declared a holy war against In Turkey. The German authorities arrested Metin Kaplan in March 1999. He was extradited from Germany in 2004 after Turkey banned the death penalty. The Turkish police have conducted operations against UIC militants in Sivas, Sakarya, Erzurum, Bursa and Çanakkale. As reported by BBC News on 20 June 2005, Metin Kaplan was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to overthrow Turkey’s secular system. However, on 30 November 2005, BBC News reported that the appeals court had ruled that there had been inadequate investigation and procedural deficiencies in the case and Kaplan’s conviction was overturned. [65] [66bf] [66bm]