European Union
TKP is strictly and unconditionally against Turkey's membership into European Union and regards it as an imperialist organization. TKP reveals the dichotomy of EU's hollow promises about "democracy" and "human rights" and informs the public about the mechanisms of economic exploitation and political submission embodied in EU. TKP also struggles against the neo-liberal policies implemented by the government as part of the integration to the EU and propagates socialism as an alternative to EU.

NATO
TKP considers NATO as a brutal, militaristic tool in the hand of imperialist and defends canceling Turkey's membership to NATO. While NATO still keeps its anti-communist nature, more and more it is used by the USA to expand and strengthen its hegemony on the world, to threaten sovereign countries and to involve other NATO members like Turkey in its bloody imperialist adventures. TKP mobilized all its forces against the NATO Summit in Istanbul on June 2004 and will continue to struggle against NATO presence in Turkey and in the region.

Iraq
TKP opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning on and utilized all its forces in 2003 to mobilize people in Turkey against the war. In 2003, TKP not only struggled against the occupation of a neighboring country by imperialists, but it also contributed to the prevention of Turkey's involvement into the war, with its troops or with its logistical support to the USA. Today TKP still warns the people about the government's continuing attempts to send troops to Iraq, while revealing the capitalists, which support the imperialist occupation by doing business in Iraq.

Cyprus
TKP stands for a united, independent Cyprus and believes that this can be only achieved in socialism. While TKP rejects nationalist arguments for dividing the island and demands the withdrawal of all foreign troops including Turkish, Greek and British troops, it also opposes the EU membership of Cyprus, stressing that imperialists, who have the primary responsibility in the current situation of the island, cannot bring peace to Cyprus.

Fundamentalism
TKP considers Islamic fundamentalists as a counter-revolutionary force serving the interests of Turkey's bourgeoisie and imperialists. In Turkey, Islamic fundamentalism was raised as an assault force against leftist and revolutionaries in 1960's, and after the military coup in 1980, they were supported by the military to erase the impact of revolutionaries among laborers. In 1990's Islamists continued their assaults against leftist, the most brutal example being the murder of 35 intellectuals in Sivas in 1993. While TKP struggles against Islamic fundamentalism at political and ideological level, it also reveals their links with bourgeoisie and military.

AKP
AKP (Party of Justice and Development), which is the party in government since the elections in 2002, is a loyal servant of imperialism and obedient representative of bourgeoisie. While being organically part of bourgeoisie, AKP managed to get the votes of laborers with lies and empty promises and it became the first party in power without a coalition since early 1990's. Although AKP's roots are in Islamic fundamentalist movement, it doesn't hesitate to collaborate with the USA, to submit Turkey to EU and to strengthen Turkey's dependency on NATO. While TKP reveals the collaborationist character of AKP, it also struggles against the Islamist discourse of AKP at ideological level.

Neo-liberalism
In the struggle against neo-liberalism, TKP intends to go beyond resistance and organize a counter-attack. Presenting socialism as the only valid alternative against the "New World Order" imposed by imperialists and capitalists, TKP fights against neo-liberalism both at ideological and political level. The process of neo-liberalization started in Turkey after the military coup in 1980, upon which an intensive wave of privatization and anti-labor policies shook the country. TKP argues that the neo-liberal assaults can only defeated by a strong working class movement with a clear socialist perspective.

Working Class Movement
Creating a new working class movement is among the priorities of TKP. While the new methods of capitalist production make the labor unions an insufficient platform for creating an effective working class movement, transforming the "yellow" unions to "red" ones and eliminating the rotten bureaucracy at labor unions is an important first step on the way to creating a working class movement, which embraces all laborers of the country. To do so, TKP created the Workers' Council consisting of labor unionists, intellectuals and vanguard workers, which is intended to produce strategies and coordination on the way of creating a working class movement.

Women Laborers
TKP doesn't consider women's problems as being apart from the class struggle. With this perspective, TKP organized the Laborer Women's Committees, which aim to organize and mobilize especially the women, who do housework or don't have a specified working place. In addition to politicizing women laborers, Laborer Women Committees also struggle against the ideological and political assaults by the bourgeoisie, such as covering the class dimension of women's problems.

Kurdish Issue
Standing for the fraternity of the peoples in Turkey, TKP considers itself as the party of Kurdish and Turkish proletariat. Since the oppression of Kurdish people is a direct result of capitalist system, the salvation of Kurdish people cannot be separated from the salvation of the Turkish proletariat. While TKP struggles against nationalist and racist attitudes towards Kurdish people, it also denounces Kurdish nationalism. Especially after the dissolving of Soviet Union, like many other national liberation movements, the mainstream Kurdish movement started to shift right. TKP struggles against the subaltern nationalism, which gives priority to the national question over class struggle, and builds up the common march of Kurdish and Turkish laborers towards socialism.

Universities
TKP considers the struggle at the universities as an essential part of the general struggle for socialism. Since universities are crucial to meet the ideological needs of the bourgeoisie, they are important platforms of ideological and political struggle for communists. Student branch of TKP aims to defeat the ideological impact of the bourgeoisie on universities, stand against the privatization on commercialization of universities and to hinder the universities from being used by NATO, EU and imperialists in general. TKP also formed the University Councils consisting of students, academicians and university laborers at many universities, in order to give voice to the demands of communists at universities. It is important to note that student branch of TKP gives priority to linking the struggle at universities to the broader struggle for socialism and to establish ties between the problems at universities and capitalist system.

High Schools
Communist Party of Turkey has also been active in the high schools of the country, organizing the youth of Turkey which has been systematically forced into isolation from politics in the wake of the 1980 military coup. Under the banner of "the School and Country" a name symbolizing the inseparable nature of these two areas and emphasizing the importance of politicization, high school students frequently come together for debates, various activities such as photograph exhibitions and slide shows depicting relevant current issues such as war and imperialism. The heightening of political awareness among the youth of Turkey is seen as an imperative in the struggle for socialism by the Communist Party of Turkey.

Internationalism
TKP gives priority to reproducing the struggle for socialism at international level. While TKP believes that socialism can only be achieved through the struggles of communist and revolutionary organizations in each separate country, it considers international solidarity and collaboration as an important component of the struggle for socialism. Thus TKP is in contact with communist and revolutionary organizations from all over the world. Giving priority to regional collaboration, TKP supports Balkan Anti-NATO Center (BAN-C) and develops close ties with the communist parties of neighboring countries. Further on, TKP expresses its full support to socialist countries like Cuba, and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Accordingly, TKP supported the foundation of José Martí Association for Friendship with Cuba in Turkey, which aims to inform the public about the gains of socialism in Cuba. Meanwhile, the student branch of TKP is a member of World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and it organized the "International Anti-Imperialist Youth Camp" together with WFDY in June 2004. In addition to that TKP hosted two international conferences in February and June about the struggle against NATO.