Labour Party (Turkey)
Labour Party Emek Partisi | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Seyit Aslan |
| Founded | 25 November 1996 |
| Headquarters | Fevzi Çakmak 1 Sokak No: 15/5, Ankara, Turkey |
| Membership (2025) | 5,004 |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | HDK Labour and Freedom Alliance (Since 2022) |
| International affiliation | ICMLPO IMCWP |
| Colours | Red and Yellow |
| Grand National Assembly | 2 / 600 |
| Municipal Assemblies | 11 / 20,952 |
| Website | |
| www.emep.org | |
The Labour Party (Turkish: Emek Partisi, EMEP) is a Turkish communist party founded in 1996. Its chairperson is Seyit Aslan.
Its ideological stance is in accord with the line of ICMLPO. In its programme, EMEP identifies its goal as creating an "Independent and Democratic Turkey". The party publishes the daily Evrensel (lit. 'Universal'). The party is one of the participants in the People's Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012. It is one of the few political parties in Turkey that recognizes the Armenian genocide.