Background

The party program is the fundamental guide for a Leninist party. Thus, TKP not only considers its program as a written statement of its communist and revolutionary identity but the program is also a primary point of reference, which shapes the daily policies of TKP. While anyone, who wants to join TKP, must read and accept the program, it is also used in public to propagate party's policies.
The program of TKP predates the party. Months before the foundation of STP (Party for Socialist Turkey), the cadres around the theoretical journal Gelenek organized to create the "Socialism Program", which would be the back bone of the party. Many leftist intellectuals, workers and students participated at open meetings to discuss the Socialism Program. Upon the conclusion of discussions, the program reached its final form and STP, which would work for the realization of this program, was founded.
Not even a year after, the Constitutional Court started opened a trial to ban STP, because of an article about the Kurdish People in the party program. Rejecting to change its program, STP was banned and SIP (Party for Socialist Power) was founded. In order to avoid the same process to begin, SIP submitted a one sentence program to the state for official records, while the Socialism Program still remained and was used as the program of SIP. The program of SIP became the program of TKP without any change, when the party assumed its real name in November 2001.
In the summer of 2003, TKP started a program conference to update its program. The changes in the program aimed a purer, clearer and more direct expression of party's aims in terms of language and content, in accordance with the target of evolving into a mass party, and in order to propagate the party program among the masses. At the 7th Congress of TKP on February 29th 2004, the updated version of the program was officially and unanimously accepted by the delegates.

The Program of the Communist Party of Turkey

Call

Friends;
Capitalism is a system of exploitation in which all kinds of inequalities, injustices, and tyranny rule.
On the one hand, material and technical possibilities to make the world a wonderful place to live for all mankind, while on the other hand reactionary social relations resulting in inequality and injustice. There is only one explanation to this contradictory situation: "Progress" made under conditions of capitalism meaning more problems and pain for the majority of humanity.
Imperialism, which has declared war on every gain and value of humanity and which endeavors to take away the defense mechanisms of those that are oppressed, is the most dangerous type of reactionism based on political and cultural monopoly.
A certain significant technological progress has been achieved under the conditions of capitalism. However, the scientific technological possibilities accumulated during capitalism cannot be used with full capacity and do not serve the happiness of mankind. Capitalism shapes technology to serve its own profit aims, leaving for laborers the destructive consequences of using technology for profit gain.
In a society where capitalist exploitation is dominant, it is not possible to utilize the possibilities of development which the scientific and technologic accumulation of mankind has created. A system which operates with a profit motive cannot provide society with the totality of material-technical possibilities.
Today, all conditions necessary to eradicate famine exists. Production forces have sufficiently developed to easily meet all the fundamental requirements of mankind concerning nutrition, clothing, shelter, transportation, education and health. Yet a great majority of the population on earth struggles with hunger and poverty.
Capitalism is a system whereby a small minority appropriates all the wealth created by the working class. Due to this thievery, leaving aside for one moment the solution of the fundamental problems confronted by humanity, each passing day presents new problems that are added to the old. Capitalism itself is humanity's main problem today, and this is why it must be destroyed.
Humanity is living in an inconceivable period of ignorance and lack of education in an era where science rapidly develops and where all types of information can be conveyed in the easiest and most rapid fashion. Including imperialist countries such as the USA, Germany and France, billions of people are deprived of knowledge and basic education. For a great majority of people, capitalist education means acting like a machine, a computer. People are standardized, alienated and molded into an identical form.

The bourgeoisie has created the world market by including all parts of the world into the exploitative system. However this period has not led to the elimination of national boundaries and the elimination of enmity between nations. Rather, it has resulted in the weakening of the defense mechanisms of nation-states for the benefit of imperialist countries, the subjection of dependent countries to a more intense imperialist exploitation, and the rise of hostilities between nations. Unless classes and exploitation are not eradicated from the world, hostilities between nations will not disappear and peace on earth will not be realized.
Capitalism is a system which produces crises and which prolongs its life by feeding on crises. Economic crises are not a problem generating from the nature of production, but rather a disturbance caused by the anarchical and unorganized nature of capitalism. The most undeveloped dependent countries, the working class, and laborers are the ones who are made to pay for the cost of the crisis.
Under the dominance of capitalism, the activity of humanity over nature has taken a turn into an uncontrollable road in terms of the destruction, pollution and unlivable state the environment has been subjected.
Capitalism has even inserted money, the market, and alienation into the family institution, and has thereby turned the family into a company in which love is entrapped by these elements.
Instead of mobilizing production capacity for the meeting of needs of mankind, it is an illogical system that directs the accumulated resources and possibilities into parasitic "activities" that do not hold any benefit for society, such as armament, war, and the destruction of nature.
This inconceivable system can only stand by excluding the working class from politics.
Likewise, general suffrage, elections, parliamentary functioning and all of these means have distanced themselves from their functions of participation and representation under conditions of capitalism, and are the instruments of one-sided administration for the benefit of the capitalist class. The main method which capitalism resorts to administer, is the pacification and de-politicization of the masses. In capitalism today, representative organs are losing force and significance as a trend, and administrative organs are instead coming to the fore. Not just citizens, but those elected have been pacified and made dysfunctional.
The fundamental rights and liberties that have been gained with bourgeois revolutions are becoming history. Today, the privacy of communication and private life, residential immunity, expression, work, and organization freedoms are under the definite control of the monopolist capitalist state, and have ceased to be rights and freedoms. Relations between states are anarchical.
Capitalism continues its dominance with ideological and political institutions of dominance accompanying bare force and violence. Written and visual media, one of the most efficient instruments in desensitizing the masses to social developments, along with cultural organizations directed at entertainment and passing free time, all types of fundamentalist organizations that propagate and do the hard bargaining for reactionism, are the instruments that perpetuate daily and spread to the masses the bourgeois ideology. They all aim for the same thing: To invalidate the conception of serving society and the concept of "public service", to convey the illogical character of this system to people by making consumption, individualism and pacification dominant, and to prevent it from taking action to change it.

That is why we are calling to everyone to free their minds of capitalism.
Communists and workers have been struggling against this inconceivable and illogical system for more than 150 years. This history, which has been written upon the toil and selfless actions of those that have contributed to the struggle, has progressed through the pathway where rise was followed by fall and were leaps were followed by regression.
Two great revolutionary advances have especially gained importance in this progression. The 1871 Paris Commune and the 1917 October Revolution were great historical examples of defiance in which the working class grasped political power and undertook socialist establishment. The first lasted only 70 days, while the latter lasted over 70 years. These attempts, especially the latter, created a treasure of experience unparalleled in importance.
The move to communism from capitalism is a long and complicated process in which many critical points exist. The world is only at the beginning of this process. The October Revolution is the first word said on behalf of socialism. No word said in history can be counted as unsaid. The October Revolution and the following socialism experience is our tradition, as much with its gains and accomplishments as with its weaknesses and shortcomings. Starting from the October Revolution, we stand against the attempts at excluding socialist establishment practices realized in Europe, Asia and Latin America from present to the past.
The dissolution of Soviet socialism under imperialist siege carries vitally important lessons for communists. Communists will make use of the lessons learned from the process of dissolution deriving fundamentally from ideological-political weaknesses in order to prevent weakening in struggles in the future and to base the socialist establishment process on stronger ground.
Following the dissolution experienced in socialist countries, certain tendencies emerged that questioned the important gains of these experiments instead of pointing out to their real shortcomings and problems. Socialist countries have attained degrees of success never reached by any capitalist country to date on health, education, transportation and similar fields, and more importantly, they have managed to seriously reduce inequalities in society. Such facts as hunger, ignorance, and unemployment, which have even become accepted facts in capitalist countries, were eliminated by socialist countries.
At the base of all these gains lies the means of production becoming the property of the whole of society and the transition to a planned economy.
To deny the belief that the economy and production can be organized for the benefit of society in a rational manner, will ultimately mean acceptance of the "market" as the only possible mechanism regulating production and change. Communists differentiate themselves from other left movements not solely with their rejection of capitalism, but also with their possession of a positive alternative program to that of capitalist relations and economy. One of the most unjust criticisms directed towards us is the allegation that communism is a design for "equality in poverty". Communism is a design not only for the fairer sharing of present possessions, but also of the creation of wealth and prosperity through the placing of the productive capacity and latent power accumulated by mankind under the command of the principles of equality and freedom. Communism is a realistic and real movement because of its ability to give concrete and workable responses to the question of how this social aim can be realized with today's possibilities.
Along with the dissolution of socialism in the Soviet Union, communism's virtue of being a universal choice of liberation and hope for laborers and all of mankind was scarred. Yet there is no reason to lose hope. Socialism is the only way to escape the nightmare today, and this path is open.

Mankind needs a newer and more progressive type of socialism.
We will continue on this path by waging organized struggle.
Exploitation, class struggle and class based liberation are our three main concepts. We fight to eradicate the exploitation of one person by another; we state that exploitation can only be eliminated through class struggle and we present a class-based liberation as a precondition to universal liberation. Communism is the universal liberation ideology of mankind.
Any type of change in capitalist methods concerning production and the organization and administration of labor does not eradicate the essence of the system and the characteristic condemnation of the capitalists to the working class. The power of labor continues to be an indispensable element of the capitalist mode of production, while the working class continues to undertake its role as the "grave digger" of the system.
Capitalist exploitation is universal. Capitalism exploits those that are forced to sell their labor power without discrimination of sex, age, color, and ethnic origin. It universalizes relations along the labor-capital, exploiter-exploited axis. At the same time, capitalism uses the mentioned sex, age, color and origin differences as a means to divide the class, intensify exploitation, and degrade humanity. The only response to the negative universality of capitalist exploitation can be given by a positive universality. The only class that can do this is the working class. The working class is the universal class; it is deprived of the ownership of the means of production; it does not possess any private interests. The working class is the class which will lead the liberation of mankind.
For this reason, communists fight to organize the working class in the political struggle, to put an end to bourgeois dominance under the leadership of the working class and for the working class to establish its own political power.
Capitalism rises on top of private property, which is the source and intensifier of social division of labor, class based enforcement, and class differences. In class structured societies, the owners of property rule. In order to destroy the class structured society and enforced administration, it is necessary to eradicate private property.
The private property we want to eradicate is the private ownership of the means of production which allows the exploitation of one person by another, the command of the property owner over another's labor; and which forms the swamp from which inequality, force, selfishness and individualism originate. The possession of factories, industrial machines and other means of production by a small minority is the beginning point of wage labor exploitation. We must rid ourselves from this great injustice in order to eradicate inequality.
We will do this.

We defend the attainment of wealth and prosperity for all mankind. When this objective is reached, it will make possible the replacement of consumerist and selfish ideologies -which contend that these properties are unchanging characteristics of people, but which are in fact based on thousands of years of inequality that is furthermore daily intensified by capitalistic rule- by equality and solidarity. We clearly declare that we will do what must be done in order to increase wealth and distribute it to all of humanity: We will dispossess the handful of capitalists who hold in their hand the possession over the means of production! We will share societal wealth in a humane and brotherly manner.
We struggle for freedom and equality.
We will end the exploiter-exploited, oppressor-oppressed, and ruler-ruled relationship.
Communism is a society of freedom where a person can realize him/herself with all his/her creativity and capacity.
Communism is a society where production, progress, in short everything is for the good of humanity. Unless adequate amounts and quality of clothing, food, water, and shelter is provided for every person in the world, and unless the cultural requirements of all of humanity are met, not one person can be free. In this sense equality is the most critical threshold of the people and freedom problem. Unless this threshold is crossed, mankind cannot progress on the way to freedom and brotherhood.
We will progress to freedom through the path of equality!
Friends,
All nations deserve freedom and equality. The struggle of communists will continue until not one exploiter and not one exploited person exists on the face of the earth. However, we are the Communist Party of Turkey. We are laborers and intellectuals from all nations living in Turkey. Our primary task is to wave the flag of equality and freedom in our own land.
And we know that this land is fertile. In these lands it has never been able to destroy hope and resistance. In spite of all the efforts of the imperialists and the Turkish ruling classes, our country has never become a bed of roses without thorns for the exploiters.

The greatest fear of the owners of the capitalist system, which for the great majority of the population means nothing but poverty, unemployment and oppression, is the organization of laborers, their unification of their forces, and their walk to political power.
There is no force which can prevent this march to power. There is an accumulation of enlightened persons who will rise once a developed working class in Turkey becomes part of the organized struggle. The wealth of Turkey, looted to this date by imperialists and co-operators, will form the resources for the establishment of a socialist society at the end of this march by the working class and revolutionary intellectuals.
As the Kurdish and Turkish poor, who by each passing day increasingly understand that the solution does not lie in taking separate paths, develop a common patriotic culture, the objective comes even closer to attainment.
There is a great opportunity for all those oppressed in Turkey. This also means that Turkey is a great opportunity for humanity. It is time to turn the other side of the medallion in our country known for its long submission to imperialists, its racism and fundamentalism, its corruption and decay, and for dirty policies aiming to pit fascist mobs against the people.
Socialist Turkey will be the work of us all, and humanity's pride and honor.
Our setting off is not new; we have been on this path ever since 1920. We have reached today by leaving behind difficult struggles and complicated developments in the world and Turkey.
Now it is time to leave capitalism behind.
For this, we have everything we need. The most valuable of what we own is the Communist Party of Turkey, which forms all our collective minds and consciences.
The call is made by the Communist Party of Turkey. TKP calls our working class, our laboring peoples, our honorable intellectuals, our youth; to wipe out famine, poverty, exploitation, and all types of oppression, cruelty, fundamentalism and tyranny, to organize and struggle for a socialist Turkey!

The Socialism Program

I. Basic Definitions and Objective

A. Characteristic and Identity of TKP
1. TKP is the means of political struggle of the working class which is the leading force of the socialist revolution
2. TKP approaches other social classes through the historical perspective and interests of the working class.
3. TKP is composed of communists who, regardless of what their class origins are, accept that these perspective and interests are the essential components of the political struggle.

4. Our working class is a totality composed of Turks, Kurds, and other national and ethnic elements. TKP takes this totality as a base and represents political and organizational unity against all types of segregation.
5. In taking Marxism-Leninism, which possesses a universal character, as a guide in all its activities, TKP acts in consciousness of the obligation to reproduce this teaching in Turkey, just as it is necessary to do so in every country.
6. The objective which forms the raison d'étre of TKP is to wage the struggle for socialism and to establish socialism in Turkey. TKP is at the same time part of the world communist movement.
7. TKP combines the heritage of the international revolutionary movement with the authentic dynamics of Turkey, and struggles against the nationalistic and dogmatic approaches which disregard this synthesis in the struggle for socialism

B. Objective of TKP
1. The objective of TKP is socialist revolution and the establishment of socialism.
2. a) The starting point in the process of the establishment of socialism is a political revolution. The leading force of this political revolution is, politically and ideologically, the working class.
b) State power, which constitutes the starting point of socialist establishment, will be the result of this political revolution.

c) Socialist power will be the result of the mass struggles of the working class and the social forces under its political influence.
d) The ultimate goal of socialist power is the creation of a world, together with other socialist societies, without classes and exploitation.
3. The program of TKP is the program of the revolutionary period to be realized under the leadership of the working class. In the period of struggle under conditions of capitalism, all political activities of the party point to the socialist power perspective, the precondition for the implementation of this program. The main objective for this period is to politicize, educate, and form the working class into a focal point for political power within the organized struggle. TKP supports and organizes the working class and laborers concerning their demands for economic and social rights through forming the connection between these demands and the struggle for socialist power, and by revealing the fact that under conditions of capitalism these demands can either only partially be met or not met at all.
Starting from this task, prior to the socialist revolution, TKP,
i. Works to ward off all types of political and ideological assault by the bourgeoisie;
ii. Stands against missions that are assigned or will be assigned to Turkey in the world capitalist system;
iii. Against economic, political and cultural assaults by imperialism, works to develop a patriotic consciousness in working and laboring masses;

iv. Leads the strengthening of the enlightenment of the working class in order to hinder the progress of religious fundamentalism politically and ideologically;
v. Propagates the belief in the brotherhood of the peoples in order to prevent the settlement of nationalistic and fascistic ideologies within the working class;
vi. Pursues the interests of the dynamics of international revolution;
vii. Strives towards the education of the working class under an internationalist consciousness;
viii. Leads in order to increase society's consciousness against all contradictions and problems produced by capitalist exploitation, and in order to direct and channel reactions into the struggle;
ix. Develops ideological and political means to expose capitalism in all its dimensions;

x. Leads the establishment of harmony, unity, and coordination of forces on the side of socialism;
xi. Struggles against all types of national oppression and pays careful attention to placing this struggle on a class-based platform and creating cooperation between national and class-based dynamics;
xii. Mobilizes all resources in order to remove all legal obstacles in front of the struggle for socialism, and disables all anti-democratic applications and all types of arrangements restricting the organization of the laboring classes.

II. Program of the Socialist Power

A. Political Structure
1. State power is organized as a socialist democracy.

2. a) Socialist democracy is only possible by spreading state power to all areas of life, in particular to the production process. In a socialist democracy the working class is in power through its social organizations. The organs of state power reach upwards starting from factories, workshops, bureaus, farms, schools, and barracks.
b) The Party encourages and ensures the creation of and increase in the capabilities of local power organs, which will include every layer of society in the administration. 3. a) All organizations, which form the administration layers from bottom to up, determine their own administrations via free elections. The electorate has the right to "call back" those chosen to represent their demands in all organs before the term in office of the representative ends. The use of this right is regulated and ensured by law.
b) Everybody citizen of 16 years of age have the right to elect and be elected to all administrative posts. c) In socialist power, the Assembly is the highest organ in terms of legislation, forming the government and the inspection of execution. d) The Assembly works in connection and forms a totality with local power organs.
e) Local organizations have the right and responsibility to inspect their executives and those who are assigned by the executive power to areas under their responsibility, and to dismiss them when necessary. f) Founded in every unit and activity field of society, local organizations are the organs of decision and execution inside their units and fields in accordance with the law. The local organizations enable the socialist individual to intervene in social life starting from the unit in which he or she personally belongs. They supply the appropriate medium for the growth of the socialist individual and guarantee that the masses are in continuous communication, interaction and inspection relations with the political and juristic decision making mechanisms (all state organs and the Assembly).
g) TKP takes special precautions for those who are elected for the Assembly and for other executive ranks, in order to ensure that they do not break off from their production or service fields. It always takes into account that socialist democracy is only possible by the establishment of an indirect relation between the production and decision mechanisms. 4. a) Necessary precautions are taken to prevent the alienation of executive mechanisms and the people working in its ranks from the working class and the interests of the society.
b) Communication mechanisms, enabling those taking executive responsibilities in the state organization to be aware of the needs and problems of all social organizations in a regular fashion, and inspected by society, are established. c) The means provided to executives for the execution of their duties will be transparent to the degree that they will be visible and perceptible by society. It is mandatory that these opportunities are kept away from being individualistic, and formed in a character which will always keep the collective working conscious of the executives fresh. 5. The Turkish and Kurdish peoples are equal founding elements of socialist Turkey. Measure will be taken to completely liquidate the segregationist and nationalist applications characteristic of capitalist Turkey.
6. TKP develops policies enabling the state apparatus to be efficient and productive by taking into consideration the objective of the encompassment of every citizen by the state, a necessity in socialist democracy; it defends that the state-society separation will in this way come to an end. Taking into consideration the ultimate dissolution of the state, the oppressive functions of the state will be eliminated with the eradication of the plains of existence of the capitalist class and ideologies.
B. Basic Freedoms and Rights 1. The freedom of speech, freedom of propaganda, and freedom of organization are indispensable for the establishment and perfection of the socialist society.

2. Ideas that openly or covertly defend the exploitation of one person by another, which encourage war and exploit religious beliefs, along with racism and fascism, cannot make use of the freedoms of propaganda and organization due to their obstruction to the free development of society.
3. Smuggling of people, prostitution, gambling and drug-trafficking, activities which obstruct the development of socialist society and lead to moral destruction and alienation, will be prohibited.
4. National and ethnic origin can in no way be reasons for segregation or exclusion-oppression.
5. Opportunities are provided to protect and develop living languages and cultures.
6. Economic, political, ideological and cultural precautions are taken against gender differences leading to segregation.
7. Tribal structures are completely liquidated and efforts are taken to erase their traces in cultural and ideological spheres.
8. Opportunities of written and visual communication, meetings and demonstrations are provided for all social organizations in order to implement fundamental freedoms.
9. The freedom to travel, immunity of residential areas, and communication privacy will be enabled.
10. a) The justice mechanism is formed starting from the smallest locality and with the participation of state power organs. Either citizens assigned by these organs or occupational judges are employed in courts. The superiority of law is ensured.

b) Since an important percentage of crimes have social origins, criminal and executive laws include policies directed towards the supplying of the consciousness and ability to participate in society without ignoring the necessity of protecting society against crime.
c) The right to defense is protected by the state from the moment of accusation.
d) Security organizations are arranged according to the ideals of socialism and open to the accountability of the laboring people.
e) Physical or mental pressure is not exerted on those under custody or in prison. No one, under no conditions or circumstances, may be tortured.
f) Under no circumstances can the death penalty be given.

C. Economic Structure 1. TKP follows an economic program directed towards completely liquidating, according to a certain plan, private ownership of the means of production, which is the main source of the inequalities in society.
2. a) All natural resources and means of productions, including land, are public property.
b) In the liquidation process of all means of production not under public ownership, necessary precautions are taken for the continuity of production and for the political and ideological initiative of the laborers to form the main force of the liquidation.

c) During the transition period, in which different types of property ownership will exist side by side, socialist elements of the economy will be privileged with laws and the daily policies of the political power, and will be protected against the rest.
3. The main objective of the socialist economy is to enable the whole of society to live in prosperity, and to improve the living standards of its citizens with each passing day.
4. All social activities are made transparent for the inspection of society and efficient administrative, ideological, economic and legal precautions are taken against such elements of mismanagement as the wasting of social resources, bribery, misuse of authority, undisciplined behavior and lethargy.
5. Banks, insurance companies and all other financial institutions are nationalized, and the ones which are unnecessary in terms of the development of the socialist economy will be liquidated.
6. Foreign trade can only be run by the state.
7. a) Economic development is a process that can be planned under the rule of the working class. In the process of the liquidation of class conflicts, central planning is the element which will ensure the harmonious unity of all the components of economy and the realization of the production for the benefit of society.
b) Planning is implemented together, starting from the base, with the development of the laborers' initiative and the democratization of the decision making mechanisms in the production process.
8. Socialist planning prioritizes the use of scientific and technological accumulation of knowledge to be used and improved for the benefit of society.
9. a) In industrialization and development, an economic attack will be organized based on the resources (minerals, land, energy, skilled labor force) of which Turkey has sufficient quantities, and the country's dependence to the outside will be ended.

b) For the socialist economy to persevere relying on its own strength does not mean a closing down to the outside world. The independency of the economy can be achieved by its class character and by detachment from the imperialist world. Foreign economic relations, in which independence and class interests in the country are of importance, will be regulated in a fashion that will benefit the development of the socialist economy.
c) All agreements conducted with imperialist countries, which place our country's laborers into a heavy debt and the country into a dependent position, are invalid and are cancelled unilaterally.
d) Efforts are made to realize a permanent and harmonious economic integration process with other socialist countries and in accordance with the spirit of internationalism.
10. All wealth produced in the socialist economy will return back to the laborers as wages after the necessary amount is put aside for the collective needs of society. In determining the wages, the principle of "from everyone according to his/her ability, to everyone according to his/her labor" will continue its validity during the first stages of the road to a society without classes. Moreover, policies will be developed aiming to increasingly give preference to the principle of "to everyone according to his/her needs," which is the main objective.
11. The reduction in working hours is one of the most important means in the creation of the new human and one of the main objectives of socialist society.
12. To reduce the use of physical labor to a minimum level and to set potential mental production to action is also among the main objectives of the socialist society. Through the use of advanced techniques in agricultural and industrial production, machines are to undertake jobs that are realized in conditions unsuitable to humans.
13. In a socialist economy, all citizens who are of the appropriate age and ability to work are given a job guarantee, and the right to work is ensured. The state cannot, under any circumstance, remove these two rights.
14. The elderly, retired, and those unable to work are under the insurance of the socialist state. These citizens are provided with a humane life standard and equal opportunities.
15. Trade unions are one of the instruments through which the working class participates in the administration, and through which the infrastructure of socialism is strengthened and protected in the socialist establishment process.

a) The right to strike and the right to organize under a trade union are guaranteed by laws in a manner encompassing all laborers.
b) The power organs in trade unions and workplaces are authorized to improve working conditions and to broaden the recreational, cultural and sports opportunities of the workers.
16. a) A political and ideological struggle is waged in order to assemble agricultural laborers in collective farms as free farmers and in state businesses as agricultural proletariat. Collective farms are left to find structures that are in harmony with public ownership and not in contradiction with it.
b) While compatibility of different collective structures is sought after in agricultural production, effort is made to follow advanced structures.
c) A struggle is waged against all types of dynamics feeding the ideology of private property on territory.
d) Foreign dependence in agricultural production is brought to an end.
17. Attention is given by TKP for the economic policies to be in harmony with the objective of reducing the discrepancies between urban and rural areas.
18. Precautions are taken against all types of alienation emerging in the production process, especially in the worker-machine and worker-product alienation.

D. Foreign Policy and Defense
1. Participation in all military, economic, financial, cultural and political organizations of imperialism is ended. All agreements and duties against the country's interest caused by relations and connections with these organizations are invalid.
2. Participation takes place in all international institutions that allow equal participation, defends mutual interests and serves peace. A dynamic effort is made to direct these institutions into bettering international relations, constricting the maneuvering space of imperialist countries and struggling against international reactionary forces.
3. All socialist and revolutionary powers are consulted. An initiative-taking and supporting approach is displayed for the creation and strengthening of regional/international partnerships that aim to hinder the power and activeness of imperialism.
4. a) Precautionary measures are taken for the development and sustaining of international consciousness in society.
b) Solidarity is developed with the revolutionary and communist movements in capitalist countries.
c) Those forced to leave their country because of communist, socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, and anti-war views are taken under the safety of our socialist society and laws.
5. a) The main defense element of our country is the armed forces.
b) The armed forces are under the service of the socialist society. The alienation of the armed forces to society is prevented. The armed forces undertake tasks during the production process in times of peace.

c) Military service is obligatory for women, men, and all citizens. The period of military service is determined according to the state of international relations.
d) The armed forces adapts to technological improvements with an appropriate organization for the needs of the era. All types of measures are taken to keep the country's defense force functional. The public character of the arms industry is developed and meticulously defended.
e) The only organ authorized to decide on a state of war is the Assembly.
f) Against an imperialist war, all political, organizational, economic and human potential will be set to action and the war will be transformed into a revolutionary and patriotic war with the participation of the whole public.
g) Democratic norms are inserted into relations in the army, while the hierarchical order is achieved with the help of cultural and ideological education processes. The permanent personnel of the armed forces are brought up as individuals not only needed in the military field, but also by the socialist society.
h) The members of the armed forces enjoy all political and social rights given to citizens, including the right to vote and the right to be elected.
i) The international character of the armed forces are protected and strengthened.
j) Domestic security needs are met by the public militias formed within the armed forces structure.

E. Creation of the New Individual
1. The creation of the new individual is an indicator of, a result of, and the means for the construction of socialism. The new individual constitutes a totality with his/her ideological, cultural, and physical existence. The state and society are responsible for the healthy and harmonious development of this totality.
2. TKP evaluates areas such as education, mass communication, political and cultural life, health and sports activities not separately, but as a whole in the raising of individuals capable of expressing themselves socially, possessing a collective consciousness, and believing in the equality of all of humanity and the brotherhood of all nations.
3. A social security system is developed which encompasses all citizens and includes all types of human needs.
4. a) Education is reorganized according to the interests of society, as a service presented to society free of charge at all levels. All private education institutions are nationalized.
b) Education is transformed into a scientific activity that displays the abilities and creative power of individuals.
c) Education in the mother tongue is under the guarantee of the socialist state. For the peoples of the country and region to have better knowledge of each others language and cultures is among the objectives of education.
d) The foreign language education policy is determined according to the objective of utilizing optimally the cultural and scientific accumulation of humanity and the strengthening of kinship ties between peoples.
e) All people are provided with the education in the field they choose, in accordance with the needs of society.

f) All members in educational institutions have a say concerning the education policies. Teachers, students, parents and service workers in educational institutions participate in the creation of policies related to education in separate and unified organizations.
g) Taking into consideration that in the process leading to a society without classes, the new individual is at the same time the "struggling individual", education scientifically and morally aids the struggle for a world without classes and exploitation.
h) It is prohibited for children and youth under the age of 18 to work/be worked in jobs which are not part of their education process.
i) For not one citizen to be left who does not know how to read and write is one of the most fundamental objectives of socialist society. Moreover, all opportunities are provided for individuals to develop their knowledge and abilities without any age restrictions.
5. All private hospital and health institutions are nationalized. All health services are free of charge and paid by the state including medicine and treatment costs. A struggle is waged to eradicate all elements detrimental to human health, and applications of protective medicine and stage by stage health services are widespread.
6. Individuals have the right to reside in locations where they can morally and physically reproduce themselves. In accordance with this right, everyone is provided with a residence meeting their needs. All necessary precautions are taken so that the residences are not affected by earthquakes, floods and other natural occurrences. Heating, electricity and water is provided free of charge in residences.
7. The prices of the goods and services presented for the use of society are determined according to the objectives of increasing the speed of the intellectual development of society and the changing of consumer habits in a way that would aid the struggle to create the new individual.
8. An important component of the struggle to create the new individual is the eradication of discrimination and conflicts that have emerged over the course of history between man and woman in terms of social activity, equal opportunity, and social roles.
a) TKP struggles to transform the rights of women guaranteed by law into real and permanent gains in all areas of life, and stands against sexuality taking on ideological roles that are degrading to women, and against any type of discrimination towards women.

b) The necessary struggle is given in order to eliminate division of labor based on gender, which is the reason for women's dependence on household work and child care, in all its social and ideological aspects. Burdens which have fallen of the shoulder of women in capitalist society such as cooking, cleaning and child care will be undertaken by the whole of society by mobilizing collective resources. Day-care centers, dining halls and laundries, which are important components of planned urbanization, are to this end made widespread.
c) All manner of organizational opportunities are provided for women to actively participate in political and cultural life.
d) TKP struggles to purify the family of the economic and ideological duties assigned to it under conditions of capitalism and to transform it into unforced relationships based on love.
9. Caring and feeding of children, as well as their development and education as healthy individuals, is under the guarantee of the socialist state.
10. The youth are encouraged to participate in the totality of social life, in political decision making processes, along with cultural, artistic and scientific production as early as possible. Opportunities are provided for them to have equal rights and responsibilities with other citizens in the educational or sports institutions and the localities of which they are a part of. The socialist society will free the youth in every area by exposing the creative energy of youth held under oppression in capitalist society.
11. All mental and material conditions are created in order for the elderly, who have been left alone and without support by being distanced from all social activities by capitalism, to live as citizens encouraged to participate in public life as equal and cared for citizens.
12. Opportunities of participation in education and production processes and social life are provided for the disabled.
13. Art is one of the important fields that will contribute to the free self-realization of the new individual.
a) TKP leads initiatives that aim to liberate artistic creativity.

b) The removal of all obstacles in the way of the opening of art to the masses in a free environment, the organization of art workers, and the conveyance of art to people is one of the fundamental objectives of TKP. To this end;
i. Importance is given to the organized and collective utilization by art laborers of the social opportunities set aside for them.
ii. It is of essence that the state supports and does not obstruct new and different creation styles and techniques in artistic production.
iii. Censorship of any kind on art is removed.
iv. The commoditization of art is prevented.
v. Effort is made for artistic production to cease to be a minority occupation and for it to become a widespread social occupation.

vi. TKP wages ideological struggle for the prevention of artistic production falling into contradiction with the socialist society and the needs of the new individual.
c) The cultural and historical heritage is protected and opened to the reach of the whole public.
14. Science and scientific activity is one of the fundamental headings in the perfection of socialist society and the creation of the new individual. With the termination of the conditions in which science and technology could develop according to the purpose of increasing exploitation or their ability to increase exploitation, and in which they are commodifed and alienated to the masses, it will be possible to run scientific activity for the interests of society as a whole. The organized participation of scientists in the identification and distribution of the resources set aside for scientific studies. The gains and products resulting from the studies conducted by scientists are the common property of all mankind.
15. a) Sports, which have been commercialized and have become professional activities in capitalist society, are replaced by a social organization whereby all people form every age, gender, occupation and region are presented with the opportunity to do sports.
b) The objective of basing and developing sporting activities on health, entertainment and solidarity and not destructive, enmity creating competition is targeted.
c) Instead of confining sports to private locations, it is spread to workplaces, schools and all residential areas. The masses are encouraged to cease being passive spectators.
16. a) Everyone has the right to freedom of religion. No institution can implement moral pressure on people.
b) The politicization of religion is prevented. The religious beliefs of individuals are not placed in any official documents.

c) Religion is studied in educational institutions as a research subject in social sciences.
d) TKP is the vanguard of the political-ideological struggle waged for the replacement of all types of metaphysical beliefs with scientific knowledge accumulated by humanity.
17. a) Environmental and cultural values will be liberated from being commercial goods, and will be protected by the state and opened up to the use of society as a whole. Heavy sanctions are implemented against the destruction of coasts, forests, and natural and historical wealth.
b) In socialist industrialization and urbanization policies, the protection of environmental and human health is taken into consideration as a primary factor. In determining environmental policy and in concrete implementations, the organized participation of society as a whole along with related communities is provided.
c) Precautions are taken for the removal of inequalities between urban and rural areas resulting from the relative superiority of cities to rural areas in terms of economic, social and cultural aspects.
d) Public transportation is used and turned into a free of charge public service in cities. In trips within the city and between cities, the dominance gained by the motorway in capitalist society will be reduced while safer and more productive forms of transportation are made widespread.
e) The setting aside of necessary resources in order to eliminate the destructive effects of natural disasters, and to conduct scientific study in this direction is the responsibility of the socialist state. These studies are open to public knowledge, participation, and inspection.