Kemal Okuyan


Kemal Okuyan is secretary-general of the Communist Party of Turkey.

Youth

Through his childhood and youth, he was in İzmir and İstanbul. He graduated from Bosphorous University Political Sciences Department.

Political life

He started his political activities in Workers Party of Turkey. By 1980's he and his comrades founded the Gelenek journal around which they have formed a nucleus of a traditional communist party.
In the beginning of 1990's he and his comrades founded Party for Socialist Turkey and later on Party of Socialist Power. This party changed its name to Communist Party of Turkey in 2001 Congress. Okuyan is still working in the leading councils of the party acting as secretary-general.

Works

He is a columnist in the soL Portal a newspaper portal. He also wrote many books about political events in Turkey and the former socialist world.