Workers’ Party of Turkey
political party, Turkey
Also known as: WPT
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history of Turkey
- In Turkey: The ascendancy of the right, 1961–71
…a socialist political party, the Workers’ Party of Turkey (WPT; 1961); and an armed guerrilla movement, the Turkish People’s Liberation Army (1970). These and similar groups espoused anticapitalist and anti-Western doctrines, and their followers, particularly in the universities, often supported them by violent action. The violence of the left was…
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