Kemal Okuyan

Kemal Okuyan (born 1962) is secretary-general of the Communist Party of Turkey.

General Secretary

Kemal Okuyan
Kemal Okuyan at an annual party conference
General Secretary of Communist Party of Turkey
In office
2001 [1] – 2009
Preceded byAydemir Güler
Succeeded byCollective leadership
Member of Communist Party of Turkey General Committee
Personal details
Born1962
İzmir
NationalityTurkish

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. By 1980's he and his comrades founded the Gelenek journal around which they have formed a nucleus of a traditional communist party.

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)
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gollark: You don't secretly pack satellite transceivers into your hand luggage?
gollark: Wow, that took a while. My bee neuron data finished transferring.
gollark: I'll inform the Council.
gollark: Oh no.


  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20011212154214/http://www.tkp.org.tr/
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