Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (Turkey)

The Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (Turkish: Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi, DSİP) is a Trotskyist party in Turkey. It was founded by Şevket Doğan Tarkan and his friends from Trotskyist journal Socialist Worker in 1997. The group had links to far-left Kurtuluş Hareketi (Liberation Movement) before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.

Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party

Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi
AbbreviationDSİP
Co-spokespersonsMeltem Oral
Şenol Karakaş
FounderŞevket Doğan Tarkan
FoundedApril 27, 1997 (1997-04-27)
Membership (2021) 81[1]
IdeologyTrotskyism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-Kemalism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationPeoples' Democratic Congress[2]
International affiliationInternational Socialist Tendency
Website
www.dsip.org.tr

An opposition grouping within DSİP named Antikapitalist was formed following a split in DSİP. The group had no relation with DSİP after that split.

The party did not participate in elections in Turkey but supported left-wing electoral alliances. At the 2007 elections, they declared support for the independent candidates of Democratic Society Party.

The DSİP is the Turkish section of the International Socialist Tendency. The DSİP supports the political magazine Altüst.[3]

The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012.[2]

References
  1. "Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi" (in Turkish). Yargıtay Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  2. "HDK Bileşeni Kurumlar" (in Turkish). Halkların Demokratik Kongresi. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  3. ALTÜST. Dsip.org.tr. Retrieved on 2013-07-15. Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
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