Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (, TððKP) was a MarxistâÂÂLeninist communist party in Turkey. TððKP was founded in 1969 by the ("Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment") group that had broken away from DEV-GENà("Revolutionary Youth"). The chairman of TððKP was DoÃÂu Perinçek. TððKP was an illegal party.
The central publications of the party were and ("Dawn").
In 1972, ðbrahim Kaypakkaya and others broke with TððKP and formed ("Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)").
In 1978, TððKP was succeeded by ("Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey" or TðKP). TðKP later became a legal party and became ("Socialist Party" or SP). In 1992, ("Workers' Party" or ðP) was formed as a continuation of TðKP and SP. In 2015 Workers' Party changed its name to Patriotic Party.