PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY – MARXIST LENINIST (2024)

PROGRAM

OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY – MARXIST LENINIST

(2024)

Introduction

Section I.

Capitalism

Imperialism

Democratic People’s Governments, Socialism and Communism

Returns from Socialism

Lessons and Experiences

Conclusion

Section II.

The Nature of Society in Turkey

History

Economic

Politics

Social Structure

Patriarchal Structure

Cultural

Military

The National Question

Oppressed Faiths

The Problem of Ecology

Conclusion

Section III.

Democratic People’s Revolution

Leadership

Classes in the Ranks of the DHD

Enemies of the DHD

Some Characteristics of DHD

Section IV.

Program for the Democratic People’s Revolution

Introduction

* The problems and contradictions that have been transferred to the present day by growing like an avalanche over the ground scorched by the fire of struggle ignited by the emergence of classes have created a paradox that brings humanity closer to disaster and a happy ending at the same speed.

* Our world, which has been ravaged by imperialism, which emerged as the last -coma before death – stage of capitalism, is being consumed with all its living beings, exploited to the utmost, plundered unlimitedly and dragged to “apocalypse”.

* The world is a “hell” for billions of people, except for a handful of masters, servants and parasites. In conditions where this situation is getting worse day by day, where the sharpening and deepening contradictions are increasing the cohesion on the front of oppressed peoples and nations, especially the working class, and in a number of countries and regions, the contradictions are becoming clearer and deeper.

* The solution to these contradictions lies in the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist world view, which analyzes the history of class struggles in a scientific way and sheds light on the path of human liberation.

Section I.

Capitalism

1- Capitalism, which emerged out of feudalism, a class society in humanity’s march towards a classless society, and which rose out of the contradiction of labor and capital, continues its existence with the burden of the struggle of the two basic classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, in various forms and contents. Capitalism, which has generalized commodity production, turned labor into a commodity, based on the exploitation of surplus value, constantly perfecting technology, has concentrated a significant part of the means of production (land and terrain, factories, work tools and machinery, railways and other means of transport) in the hands of a small number of capitalists as their private property.

Imperialism

2- Since the beginning of the 20th century, world capitalism has reached the stage of imperialism. In the epoch of imperialism or finance capital, monopoly capitalist associations – unions, cartels, trusts – have gained decisive importance.

Imperialism is an advanced capitalist economy in which banking capital is fused with industrial capital, the export of capital has reached enormous proportions, surpassing the export of commodities, and the entire territory of the world is shared by imperialist countries and international trusts.
Opposing this system is the world working class and all oppressed popular classes and strata allied with it. The working class together with its allies is the gravedigger of capitalism in the stage of imperialism.
3- As a result of this objective situation, the era we are in is the era of “imperialism and proletarian revolutions”

Democratic People’s Governments, Socialism and Communism

4- After the experience of the Paris Commune, the proletariat and oppressed peoples established the Soviet Union with the October Revolution of 1917, the People’s Republic of China with the Chinese Revolution of 1949, and subsequently popular democracies and socialist governments in many countries of the world.

5- With the reversal from socialism that began with these developments, the influence of the communist movement, which had won great victories against modern revisionism and various reactionary bourgeois currents around the world, began to decline, while the views of revisionist and other bourgeois currents became relatively popular.

6- Proletarian Cultural Revolutions must be adopted as a principle against the restoration of capitalism under socialism.

7- Within the scope of this long period, and despite the revolutionary upsurges that developed in different forms and characteristics in some regions and countries, and despite the communist movements that actually turned towards revolution in some countries, the phenomenon that marked the whole period was the ideology and policies of the international bourgeoisie and its relative economic stability. Undoubtedly, this stability also includes its crisis and destruction, and this fact cannot be hidden, as the frequent crises and conflicts show.

8- The capitalist-imperialist system is dragging humanity with it to disaster in the 21st century. The only force that can stop this is the revolutions of the oppressed peoples of the world under the leadership of the proletariat.

9- The internationalist dimension of these revolutions must be evaluated in their general and local context. The importance of international struggles against the ideological, political, cultural and military attacks of imperialism is obvious. They cannot be postponed, and their importance is undeniable. But undoubtedly, in the internationalist context, the priority for each communist party is to break the chains in its own country.

10- Despite the new democratic people’s governments and the setbacks experienced in socialism, the victory will sooner or later belong to the oppressed peoples under the leadership of the proletariat.

SECTION II.

The Nature of Society in Turkey

Historical process

11- In the 19th century, Ottoman society, the predecessor of the society of Turkey, was first exposed to the export of commodities – and the import of raw materials – and then to the export of capital with the development of free competitive capitalism in Europe. Ottoman society began to unravel with the export of commodities and then capital, which it was subjected to with free competitive capitalism. Parallel to the evolution of free competitive capitalism into the stage of imperialism, the central feudal structure of the Ottoman Empire evolved into a colonial, semi-colonial and semi-feudal structure.

12- Capitalism was not dominant in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century. Because the existence of imperialism links the national and democratic revolutions in colonies and semi-colonies and makes the dominance of capitalism in the infrastructure no longer a prerequisite for the opening of the era of democratic revolution in such countries, the process of 1908-1923 came to the agenda in Turkey. It was the 1908 Movement that started the process of democratic revolution and in this sense had a democratic content. However, the 1908-1923 process did not have a real anti-imperialist content. This process involved the struggle for power of the Turkish merchant bourgeoisie against the compradors of national and minority nationalities, which would only be finalized in 1923.

13- 1923 was a movement led by the new Turkish comprador bourgeoisie, which was engaged in a power struggle with the compradors of minority nationalities to seize full control of the partially developing market. The Turkish compradors and landlords limited the popular movement, of which they took the leadership, to a mere anti-occupation in line with their own interests, and in 1923, with the Treaty of Lausanne, they also obtained the domination of the feudal-fascist state established as a multinational semi-colony.

14- The main aim of the Turkish ruling classes is to create the nation state. Beginning with 1908, crystallizing in 1912, becoming concrete with 1915 and continuing until 1923, the Armenian, Greek, Yazidi, Pontic, Assyrian, Chaldean, etc. They carried out the first genocide of the 20th century against non-Muslims.

15- During this period, the old Unionist Kemalists who took the leadership of the “National Struggle” began to collaborate with the imperialists underhandedly, while the imperialists adopted a positive attitude towards the Kemalists and began to consent to a Kemalist government. After the Kemalists signed peace with the imperialists, this collaboration continued and deepened, and the Kemalist movement developed “essentially against the peasants and workers, against the possibility of a land revolution”.

16- In this sense, the Kemalist movement is a movement of the Turkish commercial bourgeoisie, landlords, usurers, a small amount of industrial bourgeoisie and their upper section. Both the comprador Turkish big bourgeoisie and the middle bourgeoisie of national character took part in this movement.

17- As a result of the “National Struggle” that came to the agenda with 1918-1923, the colonial, semi-colonial and semi-feudal structure of the Ottoman Empire evolved into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal structure. In the political sphere, the establishment of the Turkish Republic meant that the constitutional government, which was united with the interests of the dynasty, was replaced by a “bourgeois republic” as the government that best responded to the interests of the new ruling classes. This form of government is nominally independent and in reality, politically semi-colonized by imperialism.

18- With the establishment of the Turkish Republic; in the social sphere, the dominant position of the old comprador big bourgeoisie and the old bureaucracy, the ulema, was taken over by the new Turkish bourgeoisie, a section of the old comprador Turkish big bourgeoisie and the new bureaucracy, which grew out of the middle bourgeoisie of national character and entered cooperation with imperialism. Some of the old landlords, big landowners, usurers and profiteering merchants continued to dominate, while others were replaced by new ones. The Kemalist government as a whole does not represent the interests of the middle bourgeoisie of national character, but the interests of the classes and classes listed above.

19- Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, the comprador big bourgeoisie and landlords have dominated the power. However, in parallel with the gradual dissolution of feudalism, the effectiveness of the landlords has decreased. The Turkish ruling classes have historically been divided into two major political cliques. These cliques are not a monolithic whole and act in line with their class interests. What they have in common is that the clique that dominates the power and the state mechanism is the servant of imperialism and hostile to the working class and the people. The comprador big bourgeoisie and its cliques, who were apostles of “democracy” when they were in the opposition, became the fiercest enemies of the people when they came to power. The Turkish state is an occupying, annexing, genocidal state.

20- With the reorganization of the international division of labor by imperialism in the 21st century in line with its own exploitation and interests, there have been significant changes in the social and economic structure of semi-colonial semi-feudal countries, including Turkey. The semi-colonial semi-feudal social and economic structure evolved into a semi-colonial social and economic structure. The influence of the big landlords in power has significantly decreased. Instead of the comprador bureaucrat bourgeoisie in power, the weight of the comprador bourgeoisie increased.

The dominant political force in Turkish society is the comprador bourgeoisie. The comprador bureaucrat bourgeoisie maintains its importance due to relations with imperialism and the structure of the state. The big landlords are still active in certain regions, although they retain their existence. Their power of influence over state power has significantly declined. The Turkish state is the fascist dictatorship of the comprador bourgeoisie.

Economic

21- For a century in Turkey – the 19th and 20th centuries – feudal relations of production survived, albeit with a very heavy and painful dissolution. Feudal relations of production were intertwined with the exploitation of imperialist and comprador capital during this period and had an impact on the economic and social structure.

22- Turkey today is a system dominated by comprador capitalism, in which the exploitation of surplus-value is dominant, and the remnants of feudalism have regressed significantly, although they still exist.

Political

23- In the light of these historical facts, Turkey today is mainly under the yoke of US imperialism. Turkey’s real importance for US imperialism is proportional to its geo-political role in the region, especially in the Middle East. For this reason, US imperialism has made it dependent on itself in political, military and economic areas. However, in terms of foreign trade and industrial investments, the imperialists of the European Union, especially Germany, Russia and China see Turkey as an important market.

Social Structure

24- Although the comprador capitalist economic structure is dominant in Turkey, feudal remnants continue to influence the social structure. In parallel with this formation, the social structure is divided into two camps. In the first of these camps, which is broadly defined as the people, there are workers, peasants, urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. The other camp includes the comprador big bourgeoisie, comprador bureaucrat bourgeoisie and landlords.

24- Although the comprador capitalist economic structure is dominant in Turkey, feudal remnants continue to influence the social structure. In parallel with this formation, the social structure is divided into two camps. In the first of these camps – broadly defined as the people – there are workers, peasants, urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. The other camp includes the comprador big bourgeoisie, comprador bureaucrat bourgeoisie and landlords.

Patriarchal Structure

25- The patriarchal system, which is intertwined with exploitative systems as the main element of the oppression, exploitation, exposure to all kinds of violence and oppression of women and LGBTI+ people and has been one of the foundations of these systems, is one of the foundations of the Turkish society and state.

Cultural

26- Turkey’s semi-colonial structure and the existence of feudal remnants have also created a cultural formation. On one side of this cultural formation is the reactionary, corrupt culture of the imperialists and the ruling classes. The aim of this cultural production is to obtain “social consent”, thus ensuring and legitimizing the continuation of imperialist exploitation. For this purpose, almost every means and method are used to establish the cultural hegemony of imperialism, the comprador bourgeoisie and feudal remnants. Opposite to this culture is the progressive culture of the people, which emerges both from history and social practice. And these two cultures are in constant struggle with each other.

Military

27- The Turkish state is a fascist dictatorship masquerading as democratic and parliamentary. This phenomenon, organized from the top down, is the result of dependence on imperialism – and in this sense the weakness of the ruling classes. Comprador bourgeoisie uses fascism, a counter-revolutionary force, to keep the state afloat. The embodiment of the rule of the comprador bourgeoisie and feudal remnants in the apparatus of force has shaped the fascist character of the state.

The fascist Turkish state, armed with the all-round support of imperialism, leans its power more and more on its master’s and finds the solution in unlimited servitude. Within the state structure, a significant part of its military forces is directly trained, directed and controlled by imperialist military organizations such as NATO. In addition, the police force is made even more effective, and under the name of private security, etc., the state is positioned as an armed force against the people from head to toe. The Turkish state apparatus is especially adept at directing and managing paramilitary gang organizations.

The National Question

28- Turkey today is one of the multinational and nationalized states. And only Kurds constitute a nation in Turkey. Parallel to the semi-colonization of Turkey, national problems have been “solved” in one way or another, and the nations within the borders of Turkey have lost their characteristics of being a nation. However, it is the Kurdish national question that is still unresolved. The Kurdish nation has the status of an oppressed dependent nation.

It is a policy of annihilation, denial and assimilation based on a rigid chauvinism and racism that the ruling classes apply to the Kurdish nation. The national liberation struggle of the Kurdish nation against this policy of the Turkish state is a just and legitimate struggle with a democratic content.

Oppressed Faiths

29- One of the main pillars of the Turkish ruling classes in the construction of the nation state is the Sunni faith. The Turkish state has systematically imposed the Sunni faith on our people living within its borders and those outside this faith – Alevi’s, Armenians and Greeks of the Christian faith, Jews, Chaldeans and Assyrians – and implemented a Sunnification policy. The rigid, oppressive and massacring tradition of the state has made the question of oppressed beliefs an important dynamic of the struggle for democracy.

Ecological Question

30- The structure of the imperialist-capitalist system based on excessive greed for profit, together with the comprador capitalism of Turkey, leads to the massacre of nature and the environment, which we will define as the ecological question. The policies of exploitation and plunder lead to ecological destruction and as a result our geography is rendered uninhabitable. This situation leads to widespread and broad reactions to the plunder of nature and the environment and the deterioration of the ecological balance both in cities and rural areas. This struggle has become an important component of the struggle for democracy in our country.

Conclusion

31- In the light of these historical facts, it is a fact that among the main contradictions existing today, more than one contradiction has become more visible. The principal contradiction today is the contradiction between imperialism, comprador capitalism, feudal remnants and the broad masses of the people. The main contradiction in the process of the Democratic People’s Revolution is the contradiction between comprador capitalism, feudal remnants and the broad masses of the people. Accordingly, the main contradictions that come to the fore in the social formation of Turkey are the following:

– The contradiction between imperialism and the broad masses of the people

– The contradiction between the masses of the people and the feudal remnants

– The contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie

– The contradiction between oppressor and oppressed nations and nationalities

– The contradiction between the patriarchal system and the oppressed sex

– The contradiction between oppressor and oppressed beliefs

– The contradiction between capitalism and the ecological system

– The contradiction between the ruling classes

– The contradiction between the ruling classes and the refugees

32- The process of democratic revolution in Turkey is still up to date.

SECTION III.

Democratic People’s Revolution

Leadership

33- It is the Communist Party of Turkey-Marxist Leninist, which will enable the proletariat and people of various nationalities and beliefs from the Turkish-Kurdish nations to realize the Democratic People’s Revolution and from there to reach socialism.

TKP-ML, is the vanguard and leading political party of the Turkish proletariat of various nationalities, guided by the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. It embraces the legacy of the revolutionary organizations of the Armenian, Greek, etc. people. It was founded on April 24, 1972, by İbrahim Kaypakkaya as a continuation of the TKP led by Mustafa Suphi. It has nothing to do with the T “K” P, which took on a revisionist character after Mustafa Suphi. It is the product of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the heir to the accumulation of the revolts and organizations of the oppressed, exploited, massacred Turkish, Armenian, Greek, Kurdish, etc. people in this geography.

34- TKP-ML, accepts Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, a scientific guide for changing the world through revolution in the hands of the proletariat, as the theoretical basis guiding all its actions. It protects, defends and applies the teachings of K. Marx, F. Engels, V.I. Lenin, J. Stalin and Mao Zedong, the great leaders and teachers of the proletariat, with an uncompromising understanding of ideological struggle against revisionist, reformist and opportunist attacks of all kinds.

35- TKP-ML, understands Marxism-Leninism-Maoism not as a dogma, but as a scientific and action guide of its struggle. It acts with the principle of learning lessons from the experiences of the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat and peoples of the world and Turkey. Armed with the experiences of the Paris Commune, the Great October Socialist Revolution, the Chinese Democratic People’s Revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, it marches on their bright path.

Classes in the Ranks of the Democratic People’s Revolution

36- The main strength of the Democratic People’s Revolution (DHD) is the working class. The poor peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie are reliable allies of the DHD, while the national bourgeoisie is an unstable ally.

Enemies of the Democratic People’s Revolution

37- The enemies of the Democratic People’s Revolution are imperialism, the comprador bourgeoisie and the representatives of feudal remnants.

Some characteristics of the Democratic People’s Revolution

38- A number of factors, such as the dissolution of feudal relations and the state’s aggression against the communist and revolutionary movement, especially the Kurdish national movement, supported by village burnings and evictions, have led to a serious decline in the peasant population in rural areas, especially in some regions.

The fact that the overwhelming majority of the population live in the cities and a significant part in the big cities has caused the main body of the popular movements to shift to the big cities. This reality shows that the big cities have become the main arena of struggle to realize the Democratic People’s Revolution.

The main force of the democratic revolution is the working class. Therefore, it is essential to organize within the working class. The peasantry, whose population has decreased significantly, cannot even get the return for what they produce and migrate to survive. For this reason, in addition to the land problem of the peasantry, albeit secondary, it is necessary to talk about the problem of agriculture.

Again, in the cities, the petty bourgeoisie’s concern for their livelihood and future is at a burning level. Sections such as teachers, technical staff, lawyers and doctors are involved in the exploitation of surplus-value in the process of “laborization”. In the cities, the demands and demands of women, LGBTI+ people, youth, people of various nationalities and beliefs, and the struggle for environmental and animal rights are among the agendas of the democratic people’s revolution.

39- Democratic People’s Revolution in Turkey will develop from cities to rural areas. There are two reasons for this.

The first is that the overwhelming majority of the population in Turkey lives in cities, half of them in big cities.

The second reason is the change in the scope of the tasks of the Democratic People’s Revolution. The existence of remnants of feudal relations of production has reduced the tasks of the DHD and narrowed its limits. In Turkey, the democratic revolution is inextricably linked to the national revolution. What is unique to Turkey is that the tasks of the democratic revolution and the tasks of the national revolution against imperialism are united.

40- In the present conditions of our country, the struggle for the Democratic People’s Revolution also has an anti-fascist character. The struggle that will eradicate fascism along with feudal remnants and imperialism is the armed struggle of the people under the leadership of the proletariat.

41- The Democratic People’s Revolution in Turkey will have its own specificities. Armed struggle and specifically guerrilla warfare will not be the same as previous examples. Turkey has its own characteristics and differences in terms of its region. The central authority of the state and its militarist development are at an important level. The demands of the masses are different in form. The social life of the peasantry has changed. While the contradictions based on land and agriculture remain strong, the quantitative and qualitative development of the working class has increased.

42- In our country there is an ecological struggle in big cities and rural areas. The struggle of the peasants, whose agricultural lands, water resources and mountains are being plundered, has emerged as a result of the rent policies that the Turkish ruling classes are increasingly implementing, either by directly allowing imperialist companies or through comprador companies. This means that the peasant movement defends their living space. In other words, the demands of the ecological struggle must be taken into account in the democratic revolution of our country.

43- Women’s struggle against patriarchy, feudal remnants, capitalism, imperialism and fascism are intertwined. In this sense, the struggle for gender equality and the fight against patriarchy is one of the tasks of the revolution.

44- Turkey is a multinational and nationalized state. The Kurdish nation and other minority nationalities have a struggle against the privilege of the dominant nation to establish a state, against racism and chauvinism. The struggle of the Kurdish nation and other oppressed nationalities against all kinds of fascist oppression, mass killings, bans and national oppression of the Turkish ruling classes is part of the democratic revolution.

45- Turkish society has a multi-religious and multi-faith structure. The fascist character of the state causes massacres and assimilation attacks against oppressed beliefs. Besides, it is possible to see the traces of this contradiction in the social and cultural structure. The democratic demands of oppressed beliefs are the subject of democratic revolution.

46- The role imperialism has assigned to the Turkish state and the necessity of the Turkish state to develop relations with the peoples of the region in which it is located and their revolutionary movements due to its occupying and annexing character is a specificity of the DHD struggle in Turkey.

47- Turkey’s socio-economic structure has led to a considerable number of laborers working abroad as migrant workers due to the inability of comprador capitalism to employ the emerging labor force. In addition, the long years of struggle against fascism in Turkey has led to the emergence of a considerable number of political refugees abroad. Migrant workers and political refugees are one of the important agendas of the democratic revolution in Turkey.

48- With the success of the revolution, the power that will be established throughout the country is the democratic people’s dictatorship under the leadership of the proletariat. After the realization of this goal, the proletariat, which holds the leadership, will unite with the peasants and the broad masses of the people and embark on the construction of socialism by unceasingly realizing the dictatorship of the proletariat.

SECTION IV.

Program for the Democratic People’s Revolution

The basic demands that the TKP-ML will realize as a result of its struggle to overthrow the dictatorship of imperialism, comprador bourgeoisie and feudal remnants and establish the democratic dictatorship of the people will be the following:

Political Field

49- The state of imperialism and comprador bourgeoisie will be liquidated with all its remnants. The organs of power established during the revolution will be centralized and a democratic people’s dictatorship will be established.

50- Any movement of the comprador bourgeoisie and feudal remnants in collaboration with the imperialists to restore the old regime and re-establish their class interests will be crushed by the working class, the working people and their dictatorship. Conscious of the fact that the main way to prevent such reactionary uprisings is through cultural revolutions, all measures will be taken in this direction.

51- The slavery agreements made with imperialism in all fields such as economic, political, military, financial, cultural, diplomatic, etc. and all the privileges granted to them will be abolished. Not a single imperialist military unit and base will be left on the territory of our country, all kinds of military alliances, especially NATO, and the dependency relationship with imperialist organizations will be terminated, secret and open obligations will be cancelled, and all secret agreements will be disclosed. All occupations in Cyprus, Kurdistan and other countries will be ended.

52- The people’s freedom of organization, agitation, propaganda and action will be recognized and the exercise of these rights will be encouraged and fully guaranteed. Torture and punishments incompatible with human dignity will be ended. All kinds of sexist legal regulations, especially against women and LGBTI+ persons, will be cancelled and all social institutions and relations will be reorganized according to the principle of equality. A quota of 50% women will be applied from the local level to the highest state unit. Women and LGBTI+ will be able to form their own independent democratic organizations. Every citizen, except for a handful of compradors and feudals, will have equal rights regardless of gender, nation-nationality-belief.

53- The judicial system of the old state will be completely liquidated. By centralizing the People’s Courts, the judiciary of the democratic people’s dictatorship will be established. Judicial authority will pass to the people’s courts whose members will be elected from among the classes taking part in the democratic people’s revolution. Hearings in the people’s courts will be open to the public. The regime of execution based on isolation torture will be ended and the regime of execution based on production will be adopted. A general amnesty will be declared covering all prisoners and convicts, except for criminals of fascism, abuse, rape and harassment against children-women-LGBTI+, etc.

54- The national defence and local order of the Democratic People’s Power will be fulfilled through the people’s militias, especially the people’s army, which develops and strengthens in armed struggle. All members of the counter-revolutionary class will be disarmed. Any attempt to restore the old order will not only be violently crushed but will be used as a means of educating the proletariat and the people. Individual armament will be banned.

55- All representatives and officials of the Democratic People’s Power will be elected and can be removed from office, when necessary, by the majority of the people, who are obliged to constantly supervise them.

56- The Democratic People’s Power will defend the principles of proletarian internationalism. It will educate the people in the spirit of internationalism against all forms of nationalism. Turkey’s revolution, in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, the international communist movement by recognizing it as part of the world proletarian revolution, based on Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principles will carry out the struggle for unity. It will act with the awareness that this unity can be achieved based on an open ideological struggle. It will establish and develop relations with Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties based on the principles of proletarian internationalism and equality. It will support the wars of national and social liberation that weaken imperialism in the international arena.

57- Democratic People’s Power; It will unconditionally defend the principle of the Right of Nations to Separate Freely. It will oppose all kinds of national privileges and recognize the full equality of rights of all nationalities. The Democratic People’s Power will resolutely address the source of the national oppression and persecution imposed by the Turkish ruling classes on minority nationalities, especially the Kurdish nation, and all kinds of chauvinist and reactionary discourse and propaganda.

58- In the Democratic People’s Power, the full equality of rights of all nations and languages will be guaranteed. No compulsory language will be recognized, and schools will be opened where all indigenous languages are taught to the people. The constitution of the people’s state will strictly prohibit any nation from enjoying any privileges and any infringement of the rights of national minorities.

Every nation will be granted the right to secede freely. For all this to be realized, widespread regional autonomy and fully democratic local self-government are especially necessary. The boundaries of these autonomous and self-governing regions will be determined by the local population itself on the basis of economic and social conditions, the national composition of the population, etc.

Economic field

59- The Democratic People’s Dictatorship will confiscate the capital, owned enterprises, real estate and other wealth of the imperialists, the comprador bourgeoisie and all the forces participating in the armed war against the revolution. The economy will be reorganized for the benefit of the workers and toiling people, and domestic and foreign trade, banking and insurance, etc. will be socialized under the control of the democratic people’s power.

60- In the Democratic People’s Dictatorship, besides imperialism and comprador capitalism, the feudal remnants oppressing the peasantry will be eradicated, the usurer-traders will be liquidated, the lands in the hands of the landlords, especially the lands owned by the state, will be seized without compensation and socialized. All lands where feudal and semi-feudal relations prevail will be distributed to the landless and low-landed peasantry on condition that they are cultivated. Land reform will be implemented with determination.

61- The Democratic People’s Dictatorship will encourage the organization of all peasant enterprises into cooperatives, together with all the land it has nationalized and prohibited the sale, purchase, lease or transfer to others. In addition, state farms will be established on part of the land confiscated by the Democratic People’s Dictatorship. These farms will be the first examples and pillars of socialist economy in the field of agriculture.

62- In the Democratic People’s Dictatorship, the debts owed by agricultural workers, poor, small and medium peasants to the state, banks, landlords, moneylenders, merchants and capitalists will be canceled and the mortgages on their land and means of production will be removed. All agricultural machinery and tools, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. in the hands of the landlords, especially the state apparatus, will be confiscated and the peasants will benefit from them.

63- In the Democratic People’s Dictatorship, forests, rivers, water resources, lakes, waterfalls, promenades, seacoasts and all natural and historical riches will be made the common property of the people. Necessary measures will be taken to put this wealth at the service of the whole people and to use them as historical and cultural excursions, entertainment, recreational facilities and natural parks.

64- In the Democratic People’s Dictatorship, the small enterprises in the hands of the urban petty bourgeoisie will not be touched, but their unification in cooperatives will be encouraged. Similarly, the enterprises and property held by the middle bourgeoisie will not be confiscated, but they will be under the control of the democratic people’s power, as long as they do not oppose and harm the revolution, the people’s power and the national economy, and are not instrumental in the realization of imperialist and capitalist exploitation.

Labor

65- All rights of the working class such as solidarity strikes, rights strikes and general strikes will be legally guaranteed by ensuring all kinds of freedom, especially the freedom to organize in working areas. All remnants of exploitation on workers will be ended.

66- Steps will be taken to raise the democratic rights and living standards of the working class, a general insurance system will be established by providing job security to workers. Necessary steps will be taken to eliminate unemployment and provide jobs for everyone. Measures to improve the situation of poor peasants will be developed.

67- The maximum 6-hour working day and 30-hour work week will be generalized to all working areas, including agriculture, and it will be aimed to shorten this period gradually in line with economic development and increase in labor productivity. Overtime work will be banned completely, and night work will be banned except in cases of necessity. The realization of the right to pay rest for each year will be guaranteed.

68- Necessary legal arrangements will be made for the working class and pensioners to live a better life and a social security system worthy of human dignity will be implemented.

69- Equal pay for equal work will be ensured and a general minimum wage that will enable a working family to live humanely will be realized. By implementing a single progressive tax system, all indirect taxes will be abolished, and the tax system will be organized taking into account the income of workers and the people.

70- All kinds of discrimination against women and LGBTI+ persons in working life will be addressed and equal pay for equal work will be implemented. Women’s labor will be banned in industries harmful to women’s health, working time and working conditions of working mothers and fathers will be arranged in accordance with their conditions, especially before and after childbirth, nursery and breastfeeding rooms will be opened in all workplaces, childcare and housework will be solved publicly.

71- The buying and selling of women’s bodies will be banned and free education and vocational courses will be provided for LGBTI+ and women.

72- Preventive measures that are mandatory for occupational safety will be taken in all workplaces and working conditions suitable for health will be ensured in all workplaces. In connection with this, healthy housing and transportation conditions will be created for workers. Treatment and care will be provided for those who suffer from work accidents.

73- The employment of children under the age of 16 and apprenticeship, a feudal relic, will be banned. For young workers under 18 years of age, a maximum 4-hour working day will be ensured and night work will be prohibited.

Social Field

74- All health services will be made free of charge and steps will be taken to ensure that the whole society has quick and direct access to health services. A comprehensive public health system will be implemented.

75- Legal arrangements will be made for the protection, care and education of the disabled, the elderly and orphans and those in need of assistance, and for their participation in social life as productive individuals.

76- In order to protect the mental and physical health of the people, mass sports will be encouraged, and sports facilities will be established for public use in order to strengthen friendship and solidarity. The fight against habits such as tobacco products, drug addiction and alcoholism will be carried out.

77- In order to completely eliminate the patriarchal system that oppresses and oppresses women and LGBTI+ people, necessary organizations will be created, education will be given to the whole society, especially men, measures will be taken to eliminate gender roles, homophobia and transphobia; domestic labor and childcare will be socialized.

Abortion will be recognized as a free right, all obstacles to divorce against women will be removed, and same-sex marriage will be legalized.

Sexual and all kinds of violence and homophobic-transphobic attacks against women, children and LGBTI+ persons will be punished.

78- In order to solve the housing problem, mass housing construction will be started to meet the needs of the people. Priority in the use of mass housing shall be given to the poor and laborers in need of care. In housing construction, balanced urbanization and environmental impacts will be taken into consideration by acting in a planned manner. Housing construction will not be limited to cities, steps will be taken for the construction of planned and safe housing in rural areas as well.

79- Equality will be ensured for all religious and belief groups, religion and state affairs will be strictly separated, religion will be declared to be personal, and the freedom of believers and non-believers will be secured.

80- Education will be handled with the principle of “being red and specialized”, and education policy will be planned according to the needs of the whole society, not just the youth. Education will be made free in every sense and citizens will be ensured to receive an education that is intertwined with material production at every stage starting from childhood. With the awareness that education is not only in schools, but also in out-of-school educational institutions, the establishment of a widespread library, reading rooms, courses, conferences, theaters and cinemas, cultural centers and the use of social media for this purpose will be encouraged.

81- Culturally, steps will be taken to eliminate imperialist and feudal culture in every field. For this, populist, progressive, revolutionary culture and art production will be supported. We will act with the perspective of embracing and appropriating not only the progressive, democratic and socialist culture of this land but also all the progressive, democratic and socialist culture created by humanity up to the present day. It will be revealed that cultural and artistic activities are not the work of a narrow circle, but of the whole people. All means of communication, especially visual communication tools, will be made a means of meeting the cultural needs of the masses of the people as well as informing and educating them correctly.

82- Democratic People’s Power will take the necessary measures to protect the environment. It will oppose all kinds of initiatives based on the destruction of nature, and will prioritize renewable, alternative energy sources instead of energy production systems that threaten public health and the future.

83- Efforts will be made for the return of political asylum seekers and migrant workers who had to go abroad to work and their families to the country, and the economic and political exile life they have been living will be ended by providing appropriate working and living conditions in the country for those who wish to do so.

84- All policies, especially economic ones, will be planned to consider the ecological system. Criminal sanctions will be imposed against all kinds of abuse, torture and massacres against animals.

85- The goal of the democratic people’s power is socialism and communism. After realizing the Democratic People’s Revolution, the goal is to achieve communist society by building socialism under the dictatorship of the proletariat without stopping.

“Workers and oppressed peoples of all countries unite”

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