For a revolutionary democratic republic

The Left Party (Sol Parti) fights for a classless, exploitation-free and egalitarian world in the light of the scientific socialist worldview.

With this in mind, the Left Party rejects both the exploitation of nature and of human beings by human beings, as well as othering, gender inequality and all forms of national and ethnic oppression and discrimination.

The society that the Left Party aims to create is classless, free of exploitation, respectful of all living beings with whom we co-exist, egalitarian and libertarian.

The Left Party stands for a socialism that is autonomous, democratic, planned, libertarian, ecological, feminist and meets the demands of all oppressed groups, with the words, authority and decision-making power belonging to the popular classes. With this understanding, it organises for the future socialist society based on the constructive power of today's class struggle.

The historical heritage of the world revolutions and the revolutionary efforts in Turkey belong to the Left Party. Taking these historical experiences into consideration, it fights effectively against modern capitalism in order to achieve a revolutionary people's power.

The Left Party is an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist and internationalist party that stands for solidarity with all workers and oppressed people worldwide who are struggling against the imperialist-capitalist system.

The Left Party fights to sow the seeds of socialism today in order to end capitalism and build a new society.

The world is in transition

NEW POWERS, NEW BALANCES

The defeat of socialism, which had led the most competent revolt against capitalism in the last century, and the resulting loss of ideological hegemony have created a new world picture.

The failure of the experiments with socialism led the ideologues of the imperialist-capitalist system to an early triumphalism. The predictions of the end of history by capitalist ideologues, who claimed that poverty, wars and inequalities would disappear and an era of freedom and prosperity would begin, were soon refuted.

1. As the exploitation inherent in capitalism deepens, the world is becoming a zone of chaos, increasingly marked by inequalities, injustices, regional wars and provoked conflicts between peoples. This scenario also demonstrates the hollowness of the promises of freedom and prosperity made after the defeat of socialism.

 

2. While poverty deepens, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We are witnessing an era of capitalist barbarism in which the domination of capital, exploitative relations, income and wealth inequalities are intensifying and increasingly affecting the whole world.

3. We live in a world where the environment and nature are being plundered for profit, where the climate crisis is bringing the planet to the brink of destruction, and where there are profound inequalities in access to food, quality health services and education. At a time when neoliberal policies are being imposed on humanity, three major problems - the climate crisis, migration and deepening poverty - are interconnected and exacerbating each other and are defining this century.

4. In addition, the dizzying pace of technological progress has led to new types of media affecting large masses, changes in production structures, and increased capabilities in warfare and weaponry. While artificial intelligence applications are eliminating many jobs, they also have dangerous aspects that could cause as much destruction as they bring convenience. In summary, the dimensions reached by technology have affected and continue to affect many areas, from production relations to the production of art and culture, social and class inequalities and new forms of exploitation. 

5. The imperialist-capitalist system, while imposing its power on the peoples of the world and condemning them to slavery, is also intensifying its internal contradictions. With the end of the bipolar world, it was assumed that the USA would become the absolute world power. However, this assumption did not materialise in the course of time. The former imperialist-capitalist centres, the USA and the EU, are declining, while especially the economic, political, ideological and technological hegemony of the USA is giving way to the conflictual competition of a multipolar world.

6. The rise of China as an economic power, the involvement of nuclear-armed Russia on the global and regional stage, the EU's backwardness in technological competition due to internal divisions, and the economic rise of Asia have created a complex world tableau.

7. Especially in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, wars and imperialist interventions are turning the world into a hellish landscape. The USA, with its Greater Middle East Project (GMEP), has caused massive destruction by fragmenting the entire Middle Eastern geography with ethnic and sectarian wars, from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Libya to Syria. In the 21st century, the Middle East has turned into a hell of religious wars as a result of the imperialist political provocations. The great destruction caused by conflicts such as the Russian-Ukrainian and Syrian wars, the Israeli atrocities in Palestine, and developments such as the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, leaving the field to the Taliban, have led to great waves of migration and impoverishment of broad masses of people.

8. One of the most important consequences of migration has been the racist-nationalist and authoritarian movements that have come to power or increased their influence in various countries due to the destruction caused by neo-liberalism.

 

The inequality, poverty and exclusion caused by neo-liberalism and the reactionary response triggered by waves of migration have led to the strengthening of racist-nationalist currents in all metropolitan capitalist countries, especially in Europe and the USA. These two different responses to the crisis of neo-liberalism should be seen as the main ideological and political battlegrounds for the future of humanity.

 

9. Today, a new battlefield is opening up against the imperialist-capitalist system. There are many indicators all over the world. The bankruptcy of the neo-liberal policies and the loss of credibility of the neo-liberal ideology are the main reasons for this new battlefield. In the face of neoliberal devastation, not only left-socialist policies are gaining support, but also authoritarian-fascist regimes based on the control of women's bodies, labour and sexuality, as well as policies of religious conversion and attacks on women's and LGBTI+ rights to gender equality and acquired rights. In this sense, global politics is experiencing a complex 'transition period'.

 

10. Despite the emergence of progressive popular movements in different geographies for over a decade against the crisis of the imperialist-capitalist system, their transformation into alternative experiences of power has not been successful. The incomplete rollback of the ideological hegemony of capitalism and the crisis of bourgeois governments and representative democracies continue to open the field for racist-fascist forces worldwide.11. It is agreed that market-oriented social designs and capitalist globalization are in crisis. Neo-liberal policies shift the burden of the crisis onto the working classes, and neo-liberalism has become a source of its own. Therefore, it is critical to promote alternatives based on public ownership, cooperative, local, and national different forms of collective property, widespread social rights, and egalitarian concepts.

11. It is agreed that market-oriented social planning and capitalist globalisation are in crisis. Neo-liberal policies shift the burden of the crisis onto the working class, and neo-liberalism has become a source of its own crisis. It is therefore crucial to promote alternatives based on public ownership, cooperative, local and national forms of collective ownership, widespread social rights and egalitarian concepts.

12. In different countries of the world, poor peasant and workers' movements rebelling against neo-liberalism, ecological struggles and social movements based on identity and recognition, especially the women's movement, are emerging on the historical stage. These social movements, which can be seen as an expression of the oppressed and exploited peoples' search for a new social order against capitalism, become the key to create an exit strategy by organising the socialist left as an effective force at all ideological, political, cultural and social levels to transform them into a comprehensive political alternative.

 

13. The socialism of our time will undoubtedly be the bearer of the social demands rising from the ranks of these movements; it will emerge and rise from their struggles. Socialism can be reorganised not as a perfect project and promise of the future designed from above, but as a credible hope for salvation, rooted in the hearts, minds and actions of workers and the oppressed, developed in social struggles and equipped with the accumulations to build tomorrow.

 

The seeds of the future society can grow from today, from the networks of solidarity and struggle; socialism can be achieved with an understanding that sees it not only as the seizure of power, but also as a practical process in which the masses gain experience in self-government.

14. The Left Party fights for a classless, exploitation-free society, aiming at a socialism organised by the oppressed through their inherent strength. In the face of the great injustice and inequality created by the capitalist-imperialist system and its collaborators, it calls on all workers and the oppressed to unite their forces in this struggle to win our rights and our future; to build a new order that is democratic, independent, free, egalitarian and based on solidarity.

Revolutionary democratic way out

in the regime transformed into Islamic fascism

A century after the War of Independence, the Republic, established as a progressive step, turned into an Islamist fascism by the end of the century. This transformation was fuelled by the state institutions, which were shaped by an economic and political structure dependent on imperialism, and by coups and massacres supported by big capital, as well as by the rising neo-liberal reactionary wave worldwide. Turkey, at the end of this transformation, was subjected to the tyranny of Islamist fascism under a one-man regime, where neo-liberal policies of exploitation and plunder, privatisation and looting were carried out without limits and different religious sects, communities and Sharia-oriented groups flourished with state support.

The Left Party continues its struggle to end Islamist fascism and to achieve a revolutionary democratic transformation that will pave the way for the liberation of the working people.

1. The Republic of Turkey, which was founded in 1923 after the war of independence against imperialism, was historically a progressive step by ending the theocratic monarchy. However, the choice of capitalist development after its foundation quickly laid the basis for a rapid return to the relations of dependence with imperialism. The incomplete bourgeois democratic revolution led to a century of ethnic and sectarian divisions in society, as the republic failed to overcome tensions over the national problem and political Islam.

2.Turkey's accession to NATO in the context of dependency relations with the growing US imperialism after the Second World War turned Turkey into a neo-colony through bilateral military and economic agreements. Turkey's state structure was transformed to allow the organisation of fascism within it. The Special Warfare Department was positioned within the state to suppress progressive popular movements, and its civilian fascist extensions were created. Political Islamic organisations were developed in line with the American "Green Belt Project" to control the Middle East.

3. The 12 March repression period and the following open fascist dictatorship of 12 September were implemented as a direct policy of imperialism and the ruling classes, as the fascist attacks carried out to suppress the progressive revolutionary forces were not enough to crush the revolutionary awakening. The policy of 12 September fascism, based on the Turkish-Islamic synthesis, laid the foundations for the transformation of the progressive accumulation of the Republic into a political Islamist fascist regime. On the other hand, 12 September brought to the fore the neo-liberal policy of exploitation that began with Özal in the 80s and continued radically in the AKP era. The current system of looting and plunder is based on the liquidation of all public assets and social rights through privatisation and the unlimited exploitation of underground and surface resources was established through these stages.

4. The end of the Cold War and the transition to a unipolar world did not lead to a democratic transformation of the Turkish state structure. Expecting a democratic transformation from Özal, who was the carrier of imperialist policies in the country, or from the AKP government remained a liberal betrayal that could lead to the support of political Islamist fascism. The "colonial type fascist" structure of the state under the rule of the AKP took a political Islamist fascist character as a result of the transformation in the traditional ideological structure of the state.

5. Political Islam has been cultivated in the world and in our country as a necessity of imperialist policies. The AKP was brought to power as an instrument of the imperialist mission within the framework of the USA's Greater Middle East Project (GMEP), which aims to divide the Middle East on religious and sectarian grounds. A fascist one-man regime was established in stages, from the constitutional amendment of 2010, which took over the judiciary, to the end of the parliamentary system in 2017. A century later, the republic was subjected to the tyranny of a veritable sultanate caliphate. This regime, a den of evil that harbours all kinds of fascist forces, including mafias, gangs and religious orders, is the most ruthless enforcer of the demands and interests of the ruling classes over workers, peasants, all working people, women, LGBTI+ people and oppressed peoples.

6. The defeat of this fascist regime cannot be achieved by a return to the old parliamentary system. Real change and transformation can only be achieved through a revolutionary leap that frees itself from all the ideological-political repressive apparatuses of the state, the imperialist yoke and reactionary enslavement. Such a revolutionary change can only be won through the struggle of all workers, youth, women and all oppressed peoples united, organised and fighting for their rights and future; it will be won by the strong arms of the people.

Turkey's way out is through a revolutionary democratic transformation, turning towards socialism. This transformation requires a complete renewal of the political system based on secularism, independence, public ownership, equality, fraternity and freedom. The road to the construction of socialism, which is sowing its seeds today through the workers' own experience, must be approached in a unity of struggle that takes up today's social demands. Socialist left politics is the only battlefield for a revolutionary democratic reconstruction based on secularism, public property, independence, peace and democracy against this fascist regime.

The progressive, patriotic, democratic and revolutionary resistance forces of the country stand against those who have created a reactionary, exploitative and oppressive regime in their own image. Now is the time to organise a struggle in every sphere of life that will be the gravedigger of the dark exploitative order, to advance to establish a revolutionary, democratic republic!

Now is the time to advance to eliminate the poverty, exploitation, oppression and inequalities that the people are experiencing today, to demolish the reactionary enslavement and capitalist exploitation order and to replace it with an exploitation-free, secular, democratic, independent country; a country of the working people's own power!

The accumulations and traditions of the revolutionary struggle, which have come through difficult struggles and are rooted in the past, will continue to be the greatest guarantee for winning the future.

For a democratic, independent, free, egalitarian and cooperative new order;

1. SPEECH, POWERS AND DECISIONS FOR THE PEOPLE

The Left Party does not limit democracy to elections, votes and parliament. It defends a people's democracy based on the organised power of the people in all spheres of life. It works for the realisation of a democracy based on the people's own experience of today.

The Left Party fights for:

 

An End the One-Man Regime

The abolition of the one-man regime, which has effectively abolished parliament and other democratic institutions and given executive power to one person;

The establishment of a new order based on the separation of powers, involving the people in decision-making and emphasising local governance;

The preparation of a liberal, democratic and social constitution to replace the current one, which is an institutional expression of the one-man regime based on the fascist constitution of 12 September;

The implementation of the new constitution through a constituent assembly formed after elections, after the abolition of undemocratic provisions, including the abolition of the electoral threshold, with the participation of social opposition organisations, mass initiatives and the direct participation of the people;

Abolishing the remnants of the 12 September electoral threshold, lifting all restrictions on politics imposed by the Political Parties Law, granting the right to organise to all thoughts, ensuring that no political party is closed down on the basis of its aims, changing provisions that lead to leadership cults, and accepting internal party democracy as a principle.

1.2. Organisation for Direct Representation

- Ensuring direct representation for the democratic power of the people by organising people's sectors in neighbourhoods, workplaces, schools and all areas of life;

- To remove all obstacles to organising for a democracy in which the people govern themselves at all levels, and to fight against all restrictive regulations on organising and working.

2. FULLY INDEPENDENT TURKEY

The Left Party stands against imperialism worldwide and its oppressive, dominating, sometimes directly invading policies and the mechanisms of exploitation and plunder it enforces.

The Left Party stands in internationalist solidarity with the peoples of the world against imperialism. In this context, it stands for a fully independent Turkey, ending the economic and military dependency relations with the imperialist countries, removing the US and NATO bases from our lands and stopping the plundering of our underground and surface resources by the monopolies.

The Left Party fights for:

2.1. End Imperialist Agreements

- Canceling economic, diplomatic and military agreements that increase dependence on imperialism and withdraw from NATO;

- Cancellation of all bilateral agreements with the USA and closure of all foreign bases and facilities in our country;

- Withdrawing from the Customs Union, ending the negotiations with the EU, rejecting the EU membership and ending the financial-economic bilateral agreements with the imperialist financial centres of the West;

- Cancel all the agreements imposed under the "free movement of services" that allow the exploitation of the labour force in poor countries as unskilled and cheap labour, and ensure the free movement of labour under equal conditions;

2.2 Ending Imperialist Monopolies and Institutional Interventions

Ending the domination of all foreign monopolies in our country and transferring all their assets to the public without compensation;

Unconditional abolition of all ownership and privileges over natural resources, including mining rights, lakes, rivers, coasts and forests, and expulsion of the monopolies operating there;

Ending the dependency relations with the financial institutions of imperialism and unconditionally cancelling Turkey's dirty and repulsive debts.

2.3. Foreign Policy For Peace and Brotherhood

Ending the aggressive policy in the Middle East under the influence of the USA, abandoning the jihadist alliances and opposing the imperialist interventions with an internationalist policy of peace and solidarity;

Rejecting the NATO expansion project and the new war concept of the USA and Western imperialism against Russia and China, and preventing NATO from turning the Black Sea into a military siege zone;

Oppose the intervention of the Turkish and Greek governments in Cyprus and stand for an independent Cyprus with two regions and two communities;

Supporting the resistance of the Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation policy, fighting for the cancellation of Turkey's economic-military agreements with Israel.

3. WE WILL SUCCEED IN SECULARISM

The Left Party stands for the separation of religion and state affairs. It is against the organisation of state and social relations on a religious basis and against religious sects and Sharia-oriented groups within the state.

The Left Party defends secularism as a guarantee of individual rights and freedoms and a fundamental principle of public life, against the reactionary enslavement of Islamist fascism and the exploitation of religion for the interests of the exploiting classes.

The Left Party fights for:

3.1. Separation Of Religion and State

- Guarantee of freedom of belief and "freedom of disbelief" for all citizens;

- Abolition of the Presidency of Religious Affairs;

- Dismantle the cadres of reactionary groups such as sects and jamaats within the state;

- Strict separation of religion and state affairs; end all religious interference in state affairs, public order and social life;

- Full implementation of secular provisions in the Constitution and laws;

- Ending the organisation of sects and jamaats;

- Recognise the equal citizenship rights of Alevis;

- Recognising the freedom of belief for all people of all religions, sects and beliefs, as long as it does not contradict basic human and children's rights;

- Ending the use of public funds for religious education and course activities;

- Leaving education and learning needs in this area to the responsibility of the relevant religious or socio-cultural communities and groups; ensuring effective public control over such activities in terms of fundamental human rights and freedoms;

- Canceling decisions that equate religious marriage with civil marriage;

- Ending religious dominance aimed at transforming social life and lifestyles.

4. PEACE, COEXISTENCE and a DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION to the KURDISH QUESTION

The Left Party stands for the solution of the ongoing Kurdish question, which has caused deep wounds among the peoples due to the policies of war, violence and oppression, on the basis of coexistence and democratisation.

The Left Party stands against the policies of imperialism and its collaborating governments that deepen ethnic segregation and aims to create an environment where oppressed Turks, Kurds and all peoples can live together.

The Left Party stands for peace between the two communities by eliminating all the effects of war and the chauvinist feelings it creates between the peoples.

The Left Party fights for:

4.1 Democratisation for A Lasting Solution

- Ending policies of war, repression and violence that have for years pitted working people against each other on the basis of ethnicity, opening deep wounds in both peoples, and the establishment of peace;

- Abandoning the policy of arms and violence for the solution of the Kurdish question, strengthening the understanding that accepts the free life of the Kurdish people in a peaceful democratic environment where all kinds of pressure on them are removed;

- Ensuring consistent democratisation for a permanent solution of the Kurdish question, developing principles of local governance for the whole country and making constitutional and administrative arrangements that will protect and develop political, democratic and cultural rights with a new constitution.

4.2 Revolutionary Democratic Order for The Liberation Of The Peoples

Rejecting the policy of US imperialism in the Middle East, which focuses on ethnic and sectarian segregation, instrumentalises the Kurdish question for its own interests and conducts its foreign policy on an anti-imperialist and peace axis;

Struggle for the establishment of a new revolutionary democratic order that will end the current exploitative and oppressive system, strengthen social peace and coexistence, for the future of all oppressed working people, Turks, Kurds, Alevis, Sunnis and others.

5. WE ARE THE PRODUCERS, WE WILL BE THE RULERS

The Left Party advocates an economy organised not for profit but to meet social needs, where access to goods and services is determined not by exchange value but by use value. The Left Party supports economic decision-making processes based on democratic planning, with proposals and decisions made by the people's representatives and workers' organisations, not on market fundamentals.

The Left Party fights for:

5.1. Economy for Social Needs

- Designing an economy where basic economic decisions are made according to the needs of the community, not the profit expectations of capital or the dictates of the self-regulating monopolised market mechanism;

- Key production and investment decisions in the economy should be taken by democratic planning bodies, controlled by representatives of the people and workers' organisations, not by capital; these decisions should be monitored by workers' organisations and representatives both at company level and at regional and national level;

- Making Arrangements for workers to participate in the regulation of the production of goods and services in their workplaces, to be informed about production activities, and to have a say and decision in the use of the goods and services they produce.

5.2. Expropriation is the only solution

Compensating the economic and social damage caused by the reckless disposal of public assets, such as the sale of strategic public enterprises like Türk Telekom (Turkish Telecom), Erdemir, TÜPRAŞ and PETKİM and their repurchase without compensation;

The revival of institutions such as Sümerbank, Meat and Fish Institution, Dairy Industry Institution that provide basic necessities to low-income citizens, offer cheap and quality clothes, shoes and food, and regulate prices in their sectors, thus playing a role in combating inflation;

Providing Internet services, an indispensable part of life, free of charge and accessible to everyone, starting with the reversal of the privatisation of Türk Telekom, and providing all telecommunication services to the public at low marginal cost;

- Creating public alternatives to the digital monopolies, the giant companies of the new economy, namely the Internet economy;

- Developing a public model where different forms of collective ownership, national or local, coexist;

- The creation of public institutions where workers have the power of management and control in decision-making processes, including the citizens who benefit from the services.

5.3. Democratic, participatory and egalitarian budget

Organise the public budget in a democratic, participatory and egalitarian way, taking into account the proposals of trade unions, professional organisations, consumer groups and other democratic mass organisations;

Structuring the budget to prioritise the basic needs of the community in education, health, social security, housing, food, transport, communication and access to information, rather than the needs of finance capital;

Minimising military and bureaucratic expenditure in the public budget;

Abandoning the concept of a debt-paying budget.

5.4. Fair distribution of income

- Introduction of a progressive tax system based on income and wealth, not on expenditure; taxation of international financial transactions and reintroduction of capital controls.

- Ensure that everyone benefits from social welfare based solely on their citizenship and as shareholders in the country's natural and physical resources; advocate the principle of a citizen's income for all.

6. EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL, MORE RIGHTS

The Left Party recognises the right to work as a human right for personal development and the contribution of skills to the production process.

It advocates for full employment by sharing existing jobs among more people, reducing working hours and days, and taking into account gender equality in work processes. The Left Party aims for full employment for a dignified and humane life.

The Left Party fights for:

6.1. Ending Unemployment

- Adoption the shortening of the workday without reducing wages as a general principle;

- Establishment of the right to work as a human right for all; an effective unemployment insurance system;

- Reducing the working day and working hours to five days and 30 hours per week, allowing workers to make effective use of the leisure time created by shorter working days and hours;

- Increasing the contribution of capital and the State to the social security contributions deducted from workers.

6.2. Unrestricted, Barrier-Free Trade Union Organisation

Elimination of workplace and industry thresholds that lead to the degradation of trade unionism and the dominance of trade union monopolies in working life;

Changing the rules governing trade union life to take account of workers' demands; removing all obstacles to workers' rights to economic organisation, strike, collective bargaining and unionisation;

Abolish the ban on trade unions, strikes and collective bargaining in all public and private enterprises without distinction; guarantee by law the right to organise for all wage earners, including military and security personnel;

Remove obstacles to the right of public sector workers to bargain collectively, to strike and to participate in politics, in line with the objectives of common organisation, the development of local initiatives and the creation of a new trade union culture and understanding based on democratic class and mass unionism.

6.3. Safe and Healthy Work

- Establishment of an equal, free and qualified social security system covering domestic work, education, health, social assistance, retirement and unemployment insurance, and leaving its management and control to the workers;

- Enforcement of the legal and penal provisions necessary to implement the prohibition of unregistered and uninsured employment;

- Creating a healthy working environment in workplaces; revising existing health and safety legislation in favour of workers; establishing effective public control mechanisms with the contribution of professional organisations and trade unions;

- Making employers highly responsible for the safety of workplaces and workers; taking the necessary measures to ensure the rights of those who are disabled or handicapped as a result of work accidents and their dependents;

- Prohibition of flexible and insecure work.

6.4. Decent life and peace for retired people

- Ensure that retired people receive a wage that allows them to live in dignity; take measures to facilitate their lives in the economic, social and cultural spheres and remove obstacles to their organisation;

- Allow all retired people to use the leisure facilities of public institutions free of charge; ensure that they have priority and free access to transport, energy and communication services;

- Ensure that all elderly and retired people, whether insured or not, receive adequate health and pension services; create conditions for retired people to live in dignity, either in nursing homes or by bringing public services to their homes;

- Remove obstacles to the right of retired people to organise and trade unionise;

- Eliminate inequalities in old-age pensions due to differences in the rules governing the updating of contributions, the rate at which pensions are paid and the minimum pension level; ensure that old-age incomes and pensions reach the level required for a dignified life and establish a uniform standard by adopting an adjustment law.

7. SCIENTIFIC, SECULAR, DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC EDUCATION

The Left Party stands for the reconstruction of education on a public, scientific, democratic and secular basis, with the participation of all components of education, against the destruction caused by neoliberal education policies and interventions that claim to "raise a pious generation".

The Left Party fights against the policies that threaten higher education and universities as a market, that commodify them, that aim to weaken their social responsibility and to create generations that comply with religious policies.

The Left Party wants to overcome the crisis in the education and training system by rebuilding a secular, democratic and participatory education, based on reason and science.

The Left Party fights for:

7.1. An Equal and Full Access to Education and Democratic Participation for All Citizens

- Providing equal, free and quality education to all as a basic human right;

- Restructuring the education system on the basis of equality and non-discrimination;

- Allocating sufficient resources from the budget to strengthen public education;

- Expropriation of private schools and hostels;

- Prohibition of all initiatives aimed at profiting from education;

- Ending the collection of money from participants under the name of "fees", "tuition", "donations", etc., in all levels and types of education and training systems;

- Increasing the number of schools; provide scholarships to all needy students;

- Implementing a free meal programme in all schools;

- Reopening village schools;

- Developing boarding options;

- Implementing measures to ensure full gender equality in access, retention and completion of education;

- Devoting more attention, resources and positive discrimination to seasonal agricultural workers and disadvantaged groups in access to education;

- Ending vocational and technical training at secondary level; completely ban practices that allow the exploitation of child labour in vocational training centres and child labour;

- Ensuring everyone's right to education in their mother tongue.

- Ending sexist practices aimed at changing the principle of coeducation; implement 12 years of compulsory education without interruption; make pre-school education compulsory and widely implemented.

- Ending flexible practices that allow for transition to open education in compulsory secondary education.

- Providing free social, cultural and vocational courses in public education centres to meet the basic learning needs of children, adolescents and adults.

7.2. Scientific and Secular Education

- Ending all religious elective courses, including compulsory religious education, at all levels of education;

- Completely purge curricula and textbooks of content such as 'intelligent design' and 'creationism', which are presented as alternatives to scientific knowledge;

- Completely abolish Imam-Hatip schools and integrate these students into the mainstream academic education system;

- Ending Quran classes in public education centres;

- Ending the protocols and agreements signed by the Ministry of National Education with religious foundations and institutions for various activities and events in schools and educational institutions;

- Ending religious activities such as celebrating the Holy Birth Week, reciting the Quran and religious campaigns in all schools and educational institutions.

- Prohibit the activities of religious institutions, individuals and groups operating under the guise of NGOs, sects and religious circles in schools and educational institutions;

- Putting an end to practices such as single-sex schools, separate seating arrangements and separate class/room use for girls and boys in schools and educational institutions aimed at eliminating social relations based on coeducation and mixed socialisation;

- Banning religious figures such as muftis, imams and preachers from activities in schools and educational institutions;

- Banning religious clothing, badges and rosettes for students and teachers in schools;

- Removing prayer rooms and religious units in schools and educational institutions; end all policies, incentives and arrangements that favour any faith;

- Ending personnel policies based on the training of religious personnel in the Ministry of National Education; organise participatory processes in which educational components have a say and decision in the democratisation of educational management, teaching processes and learning environments;

- Striving to create lessons, courses and various activities that encourage culture, art and sports activities that allow students to realise themselves.

7.3. Autonomous, Democratic University for the Benefits of Human, Society, and Nature

- Ensuring the independence of universities from the state, capital and all other powers in society, abolish the YÖK;

- Restructuring universities on the basis of academic autonomy and scientific freedom;

- Planning the number of universities, faculties and quotas according to the needs of society;

- Restructuring the university entrance system in order to eliminate inequalities and enable students to choose the faculty they want according to their interests, talents and desires, taking into account the social benefits;

- Developing an understanding of the production of knowledge and the organisation of the learning climate that emphasises collaboration, solidarity and the sharing of knowledge and experience rather than competition;

- Ensuring a permanent and secure employment system, a humane wage and decent working conditions for all university staff;

- Determining university administrations, including rectors, through democratic elections involving all components of the university, and to manage universities with the collective participation of all components;

- Guarantee organisational freedom for all components of the university;

- Making higher education free at all levels, ensuring that the basic needs of all students for decent accommodation, transport and food are met free of charge by the state;

- Providing all the necessary materials for higher education for all university components through public funding;

- Expropriate all private universities;

- Free universities from market logic and religious practices;

- Creating opportunities for students to study, research, criticise, develop and organise intellectual, scientific, political, artistic, social and cultural activities;

- Free campuses from private security, police, camera systems and security-oriented approaches, and abolish disciplinary regulations that serve as tools of domination;

- Considering nature and animal rights in campus construction, ensuring the integration of universities with society;

- Ensuring that universities are spaces free of discrimination based on ethnic origin, faith, gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation, etc., and that they are egalitarian.

8. EQUAL, FREE, QUALITY HEALTH SYSTEM

The Left Party opposes health policies that leave the health system at the mercy of the ruthless conditions of the market, that deepen inequalities in society's access to these services, that fuel gender inequality, and that are expensive, low-quality and privatised.

The Left Party aims to provide health services to everyone in the country as an inherent right from birth, in an equal, free and high-quality way.

The Left Party fights for:

8.1. Health as a Citizenship Right

- Providing all necessary resources for health from the general budget;

- Establishing a health system that covers all citizens;

- Providing social security for all working people regardless of their working conditions;

- Expropriate all private health institutions; abolish patents and ownership of medicines and vaccines; ensure that ownership belongs to the public, the whole of society;

- Abolish the practice of 'surcharges, contributions, co-payments' in health care; provide free health care to all who need it;

- Eliminating regional inequalities in health; prioritising community health services accessible to all; making the necessary arrangements for all citizens to receive health services in their mother tongue;

- Educating citizens about practices offered in the name of "traditional and complementary medicine", such as cupping and leech therapy, which reject the evidence-based approach to medicine;

- Ending dependence on imports in the production of medicines and vaccines and in the provision of health services; producing domestic medicines and vaccines in new facilities, starting with the reopening of the Refik Saydam Hygiene Institute.

8.2. Preventive, Progressive Health Care

- Prioritise preventive health services over curative services in the organisation and delivery of health services;

- Establishing and effectively implementing a tiered system of health care provision, with health services primarily based on the first tier, and with the first tier health services linked to the second, third and fourth tiers through a referral chain;

- Organise health services from neighbourhoods, factories, workplaces, schools and other living and working areas; fight for the inclusion of community participation in all stages of health services.

9. FIGHTING FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

The Left Party opposes policies that entrust the management and control of agriculture and food to the global free market and corporations; that usurp the rights of producers and the public over food; that dispossess small farmers and peasants of their means of production; and that exploit rural areas economically, socially and ecologically by appropriating commons such as seeds, soil, water, pastures, uplands and forests for the accumulation of capital.

The LEFT Party seeks an egalitarian and democratic food system based on an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist perspective of food sovereignty.

The Left Party fights for:

9.1. A Food System Controlled and Monitored by the People, Not the Market

Exiting international and bilateral agreements that subordinate farmers to global free markets;

Organizing food and agricultural policies in a market-free, qualified and sustainable way to meet the basic needs of the society;

Establishing a food system under the control and monitoring of the people where producers receive fair compensation for their labour;

Ensuring that everyone has access to sufficient and quality food as part of the right to food;

Prevent monopolies from dominating the food supply;

Abandoning agricultural policies based on import and export that only benefit corporations;

Building an agricultural policy based on local production and consumption.

An agrarian reform to democratise access to land, to end environmental degradation, hunger and malnutrition by allocating commons such as pastures, state lands, forests, and water to small farmers and landless, while maintaining public ownership.

9.2. Establishing the Right to Access Production Means

Ensuring farmers and rural communities have access to means of production and natural resources;

Ending policies that privatise and commercialise agricultural land, forests, pastures, highlands, and water for investments such as mining, energy and tourism;

Restoring the legal entities and commons of villages and provinces as first step towards ensuring their democratic functioning and autonomy;

Providing farmers with free access to seeds at the time needed and in the necessary quantities.

9.3. Safe, Secure and Healthy Work, Democratic Organization

Removing all obstacles to the organisation of small farmers and peasants in order to ensure their right to produce and live in dignity; democratisation of organisational bases;

Enacting regulations that facilitate the formation of peasant organisations as independent organisations and enable their meaningful and effective participation in the food system and collective bargaining;

Democratising institutions such as cooperatives and professional chambers and freeing them from state control;

Providing seasonal workers with safe and healthy working and living conditions, social security and the right to organise.

9.4. Public Transformation Against Corporate Dominance in the Food System

Ensuring the right of small farmers and peasants to independent agriculture as a sustainable economic practice;

Democratic restructuring of public institutions that have been dysfunctionalised, closed down or privatised during the neo-liberal transformation process, in favour of farmers for the widespread adoption and promotion of agroecology;

Democratisation and restructuring of the Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Unions to empower producers in decision-making from production to marketing;

Ending contract farming which supports market-driven agriculture and increases corporate control of the food system;

Developing distribution channels that enable farmers to meet consumers directly.

9.5. Ending Practices that Exploit Nature and People

Ending the high-input, high-energy, expensive and ecologically damaging (polluting the soil, water and air) industrial corporate agriculture imposed by organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, and WTO;

Supporting and expanding agroecology that preserves the soil, water air, and human health;

Ending industrial livestock farming; supporting grass-based livestock farming and coastal fisheries;

Take steps to mitigate the effects of climate change on production;

Fighting for the empowerment of small farmers and peasants to produce with their local seeds and methods.

10. ECOSOCIALISM FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE OF ANIMALS, PLANTS AND ALL SPECIES

The Left Party opposes capitalist and imperialist policies that hand over water, soil, air, forests and ecosystems to the market, exploit workers' living and production conditions, privatise natural resources for investment in tourism, mining, energy and urbanisation, causing irreversible damage, consuming and polluting nature.

The Left Party aims to put an end to these policies and the resulting climatic, ecological and social crises, and to seek a transformation in favour of the working class.

The Left Party fights for:

10.1. Ending the Destruction of Natural Assets

Ending the privatisation of land, water and forests and re-expropriating privatised commons;

Ending the discharge of industrial and urban waste water into rivers, lakes and oceans; establishing waste water recovery systems to reduce water pollution;

Elimination of hydroelectric and geothermal power stations that cause ecological destruction;

Transforming or eliminating solar and wind power plants that cause ecological, social and climatic damage;

Stopping scrap and waste import;

End armament policies that contribute significantly to ecological destruction and greenhouse gas emissions;

- Prohibition of cyanide separation in mining; cessation of gold mining and withdrawal of licences from operating mines.

10.2. Public Production, Control and Planning

Ending privileges and incentives for companies that are hostile to ecosystems; ensuring transparent and accessible regulation of these companies;

Reorganising scientific research independently and for social needs in line with ecological criteria;

Recognising ecological destruction as a crime and establishing accountability mechanisms;

Developing policies for climate justice.

10.3. Rights and Freedom of Animals

Enacting and enforcing an animal rights law that protects animals from violence and ensures their survival on the streets, in the wild and in shelters.

Banning facilities such as dolphin parks and zoos where animals are kept in captivity.

Fighting to ban the trade and hunting of wild animals.

11. PUBLIC, DEMOCRATIC URBANISM

The Left Party opposes policies that ignore social needs in urban production and planning; that destroy historical and cultural heritage and that transform the city with a market-oriented and reactionary approach, based on profit and in an anti-democratic way.

The Left Party aims to eliminate the domination of capital and the reactionary siege of urban production and planning; and to create the subjective and objective conditions for people's power everywhere.

The Left Party fights for:

11.1. Democratic, Collective Decision-Making and Management

Creating common spaces where people participate directly in management and decision-making processes, that reflect their individual and collective will;

Establishing assemblies independently and democratically elected the by people, starting from neighbourhood;

Implementing decision-making processes through assemblies organised from the bottom-up, involving chambers and grassroots organisations;

Democratizing local governments to ensure equal participation of the community in all processes from budgeting to planning;

Building an understanding based on collective urban production and solidarity.

11.2. Equal and Free Public Spaces and Services

Ending all forms of inequality, oppression and discrimination based on class, age, gender, ethnicity, physical or mental disability in the production of and access to urban services and spaces;

Liberating public spaces from the siege of capital and reaction;

Ensuring equal access to urban public spaces and services for women, children, the elderly, LGBTI+ people and people with disabilities, and protecting them from discrimination in these processes.

11.3. Public Social Housing

Treating housing as a fundamental human right, abandoning the perspective of housing as a commodity;

Preventing displacement and social/spatial segregation as a result of urban transformation projects;

Ending urban transformation projects that gentrify and turn housing production into a source of rent;

Prohibiting the legalisation of illegal constructions and extensions through amnesty laws that violate the zoning laws and constitute a crime against the city;

Constructing and expanding social housing by public means, in accordance with science and technology;

Expropriation of surplus houses, especially those owned by banks and construction companies;

Stopping forced evictions of tenants and taking legal action against rent increases.

11.4. Ecological and Public Urban Planning

Halting rent-based urban planning projects and implementing urban planning based on ecological criteria, cultural knowledge and social needs;

Implementing measures to prevent casualties and damage in the face of expected and worsening situations such as climate crises, disasters and earthquakes;

Ending the use of urban land as a means of speculation for profit;

Preventing development in forests, water basins and agricultural lands;

Implementing public interest policies in transport and logistics to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and carbon emissions;

Making urban transport free;

Giving priority to walking and cycling paths, electric rail public transport, intercity rail systems, and maritime transport in urban and interurban transport;

Stopping the privatisation of public land and buildings, ports and transportation infrastructure; returning privatised assets to the public ownership;

Fighting to stop investment projects such as Build-Operate-Transfer, which are designed to plunder and give unjust profits to private companies.

12. PUBLIC, DEMOCRATIC ENERGY POLICY

The LEFT Party opposes the unlimited growth and exploitation ambitions of the imperialist-capitalist system, which is abandoning the world's limited resources, deepening the climate crisis, and the society's access to the energy necessary for decent life. It opposes fossil-fuel monopolies, dirty and external dependency, and privatised energy policies.

The LEFT Party aims for a democratic, public, and ecological approach to the efficient production, transmission, and distribution of energy as a public service for the benefit of working people.

The Left Party fights for:

We Will Reclaim What Belongs to the People

Stopping all privatisations and re-expropriate privatised assets;

Removing legal or de facto restrictions that prevent public investment in the sector;

Providing free water, electricity, and natural gas to energy-poor households to meet their basic needs;

Ending the transfer of resources from the public to electricity companies;

Reducing the amount of imported inputs.

An Independent Policy for Society

Ending policies that focus on unplanned and private capital interests, increase dependence on external sources, and attempt to meet energy needs with new energy facilities;

Ensuring the production, transmission, and distribution of energy meet the quantity and quality requirements of societal needs;

Prioritising the effects of environmental and social impact assessments of energy, industry, and infrastructure investments on regional social life and natural assets;

Fighting the illusion created by techno-capitalist solutions, such as carbon capture, which only deal with the consequences of fossil fuels under the name of "green transformation";

- Ensure that all sectors of society are adequately supplied with energy, with quality, continuity, low cost and reliability.

Energy Efficiency in Production and Consumption

Reducing the need for heating and cooling in all buildings and structures;

Mandating the use of solar panels compulsory in existing and future buildings;

Closing energy-devouring shopping centres;

Reducing transmission and distribution losses.

An Ecological Energy Policy

Reducing the use of fossil fuels;

Retrofitting existing thermal power plants to meet environmental regulations and closing those that do not comply;

Decreasing the share of fossil fuels in electricity production and developing employment solutions for workers in the sector;

Implementing policies to increase the share of renewable energy sources through public planning, taking into account the interests of society;

Creating policies that recognises that widespread mining for rare metals needed for renewable energy technology, especially solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles, could lead to disasters comparable to climate change;

Ending "net-zero carbon" policies that hide the primary responsibility of the imperialist centres for the climate crisis and ecological destruction;

Fighting for the cancelation of all nuclear power plant projects and preparations.

13. FOR GENDER EQUALITY

The Left Party adopts a socialist feminist perspective in the fight for gender equality; associates violence against women and LGBTI+ individuals not with personal emotional issues between individuals but with the pervasive influence of male domination in every aspect of social relations; addresses the inequality based on socially and culturally constructed gender categories and the resulting division of labour from the perspective of power relations and politicises the issue.

The party fights against the domination of religious male supremacy over women's bodies, labour, and sexuality, and against the political, legal, economic, physical, sexual, and psychological violence exerted by Islamist fascism. It advocates for the transformation of the public sphere on the basis of gender equality and for the liberation of all social relations from the dictates of religion.

The Left Party supports affirmative action to ensure full equality in the participation and representation of women in all areas and aims for gender equality.

The Left Party fights for:

13.1. Ending the Violence and Discrimination

Eliminating the economic, political, and social conditions that lead to violence;

Ending the oppression and lynching attempts against gender identities, ensuring that citizens are not subjected to violence or discrimination in public services such as education and health on the basis of their sexual identity;

Beginning within its organisational structure, the party seeks to eliminate and transform sexist stereotypes, attitudes, language, and behaviour in all social spheres and relationships;

Reforming the Constitution, the Political Parties Law, and all relevant laws to eliminate sexism and to ensure gender equality and equal representation, enabling women's equal participation in politics and decision-making mechanisms;

Strengthen the constitutional and legal basis for gender equality; effectively and fully implement the Istanbul Convention (which was illegaly terminated but the ratification law is still in force) and the Law No. 6284;

Rigorously monitoring and severely punishing perpetrators of forced and early marriages, and child abuse;

Ending violence against women, hate crimes against LGBTI+ individuals, ensuring their right to life and protection from violence, and taking measures to end male violence;

Applying serious sanctions against perpetrators of violence and meet the safety, shelter, and other needs of women and LGBTI+ individuals who have experienced violence; create economic, social, and political conditions for their independent existence;

Ratifying and implementing the ILO Convention No. 190 on the elimination of harassment and violence at work.

13.2. Equality and Social Justice

Ending the gender division of labour, a fundamental basis of social inequality and sexism;

Ending structures of inequality and discrimination based on the gender division of labour both in the private sphere, which is unequal, hierarchical and centred on the male-dominated family, and in the public sphere and the workplace;

Socialisation of care work (child, elderly, sick care, cleaning, feeding) and reproductive activities (care, cleaning, feeding) performed by women in the home; implementation of social policies in public services, employment, and population policies towards gender neutrality;

Raising public awareness of the equal sharing of domestic responsibilities between women and men, and girls and boys;

Introducing courses on gender equality in the compulsory education curricula in accordance with gender-equality in all social relations and areas, restructuring textbooks based on the basis of gender equality, and taking affirmative measures, especially for girls;

Achieving full gender equality in wages, working conditions, and social rights at home and at work in the face of precariousness, low wages, discrimination and injustice caused by a gendered division of labour that devalues and subordinates women's work;

Ensuring women's employment in permanent and secure jobs, not through entrepreneurship that puts them in highly unequal competitive conditions and deepens dependency through dept;

Eliminating all forms of discrimination in employment based on gender and sexual orientation-based;

Adopting a gender equality perspective in urban policies, urban planning, construction of public institutions, and spaces, ensuring inclusiveness that prioritises the needs of women and children;

Empowering rural women engaged in agriculture and farming on the basis of gender equality; ensuring their equal participation in rural economic and social production, protecting them from patriarchal violence, and securing their rights to access public resources and financing;

Establishing policy statements on gender equality and against violence in all institutions, creating violence and harassment prevention units, and providing training;

Restructuring the social security system, which is traditionally based on the male breadwinner model, to support every woman's independent existence;

Ending male dominance over women's bodies, labour, and sexuality in all its traditional, religious, and modern capitalist forms, and all forms of sexism in the social and political spheres.

13.3. Budgeting For Gender Equality

Changing the perception of care work as the sole responsibility of women.

Expanding public childcare facilities in neighbourhoods and workplaces as a parental right, since childcare is a social responsibility not only for women or families;

Socialization of care work in order to weaken the gendered division of labour, and adjusting economic priorities, fiscal policy, and public investment spending accordingly;

Publicly organizing of all domestic work such as child and elderly care, laundry, and cooking; local governments and political powers to allocate the necessary resources for communal daycare, study centres, elderly care homes, and communal kitchens and laundries;

Implementing a budget arrangement to eliminate the social inequality of women and LGBTI+ individuals, establishing institutional mechanisms and legal regulations;

De-gendering the labour market, eliminating the wage inequalities, implementing affirmative action for women, and structurally adjusting working hours, wages, and overall working life accordingly;

Removing barriers to women's unionisation, increasing their representation in trade unions, and adapt adjustments in working conditions accordingly;

Ensuring that public health policies are based on gender equality; that health service education, planning and service delivery are free from gender discrimination; and that women's health is structured with an understanding that does not reduce women's health to reproductive health;

Making birth control methods accessible and free for all women; including HPV and other preventive vaccines in routine immunisation schedule;

Distributing essential products such as sanitary pads, nappies, diapers, and infant formula free of charge through primary health care facilities;

Establishing health and reproductive services that give women full rights over their bodies, covering both contraception and the termination of unwanted pregnancies;

Empowering women's agency in decisions regarding their bodies, labour, and sexuality, promoting the development of their capacity for self-determination; creating economic, social, and political conditions for their independent existence.

14. OLD AGE AND SENIOR RIGHTS

The Left Party aims to guarantee the rights of every older person to independent living, social and economic participation, care, self-realisation, and dignity, recognising the need for a comprehensive social policy for old age.

The Left Party fights for:

Creating conditions and opportunities for people to age with confidence and dignity; ensuring that the elderly continue to live as citizens with economic, political, social, and democratic rights and freedoms;

Taking measures against all forms of violence and discrimination towards the elderly;

Providing income support to ensure a dignified life for the elderly and ensuring their unconditional access to free health services;

Expanding free public care services to the smallest social units;

Ensuring that the elderly have the opportunity to live in decent housing in a safe environment;

Creating social and cultural opportunities such as cultural houses, day care centres, soup kitchens, and community centres to enable the elderly to participate in social life.

15. FUTURE AND VOICE FOR THE YOUTH

The Left Party aims to create a system in which the youth live freely and have a secure future; it considers youth as the subject of this struggle and stands up for their right to have a say in their lives and in the future of the country.

The Left Party fights for:

Prioritising the development of employment areas to eliminate youth unemployment, particularly among graduates;

Ending to interviews and all kinds of unfair regulations that lead to favouritism in public institutions;

Ensuring the necessary public resources and the opportunities for social, cultural, and sports needs of youth, provided by schools, local, and general administrations;

Taking steps to facilitate youth's educational and cultural travels abroad;

Removing legal barriers to active participation of youth in political, social, and economic life;

Guaranteeing a libertarian and democratic education starting from primary education; active student participation in the administration of schools, determination of the curriculum, and organization of leisure time;

Adjusting working hours for young workers to enable them to study in their chosen fields and to continue their training;

Removing barriers to the unionisation of apprentices and part-time workers, and fighting for the requirement of insured work.

16. CHILD RIGHTS

The Left Party advocates for the immediate implementation of international conventions on children's rights and legislation in favour of children.

The Left Party fights for:

Broadening the understanding that childhood is a phase of life in its own right and that traditional societal perceptions of "childhood" restrict children;

Ending the exploitation of children in the labour market;

Strengthen enforcement and penalties to effectively implement the prohibition of child labour;

Providing every child with unconditional rights to education, health, nutrition, and housing rights;

Provide financial and social support to families who are unable to provide a healthy future for their children and ensure the protection of children in a family environment;

Ensuring all children are examined at least once a year as part of preventive health care services; providing vaccinations and other medical services with public resources.

17- HUMANITARIAN, DEMOCRATIC, PEACEFUL SOLUTION FOR REFUGEES

Migration, resulting from the devastating consequences of imperialist wars and destructive policies, the poverty and injustice perpetuated by neoliberalism, as well as the exploitation and ecological destruction, exemplifies the profound realities of our time.

The LEFT Party stands against the policies of the imperialist-capitalist system that caused the crisis, against the nationalist-racist, neo-fascist ideology that alienates immigrants; it aims for the struggle against the policies of the political power that instrumentalises refugees to carry out a social engineering based on religion, to use this issue as a political bargaining chip to satisfy the need of capital for cheap labour and to regulate the labour regime in favour of capital.

The LEFT Party fights for:

Equal rights in all areas of political and social life in the countries where refugees live; cancellation of all "Readmission Agreements" that Turkey has with the EU; opening the way for migrants to transit to third countries;

Abandoning the US-led jihadist foreign policy; restructuring foreign policy based on peace in the region; withdrawal of Turkey's military forces in Syria; opening the way for voluntary return of migrants through conducting diplomatic relations with neighbouring countries;

Safe working condition for all as the first step to abolish the slavery regime imposed by the capital that turns Turkish and refugee workers against each other. With this understanding, it takes on the task of instilling class consciousness in the ranks of the migrant and refugee workers.

18- MORE CARE AND RIGHTS FOR THE DISABLED!

The LEFT Party advocates for the implementation of all kinds of measures to ensure that our disabled citizens can lead a humane life along with all other citizens with equal opportunities in all areas of life such as health, education, work, environment, urban life; it defends that all kinds of educational and informative activities on this issue should be carried out as a public service.

The LEFT Party fights for:

Implementing positive discrimination to overcome the inequalities faced by disabled citizens;

Establishing a special social security umbrella for the disabled; a wage at a level that provides a minimum subsistence for disabled people who cannot find a job or are unable to work;

Increasing the services provided for the medical care and rehabilitation of the disabled people; providing free care, providing needs such as devices, prosthetics free of charge;

Equal rights for disabled people in education with all other citizens; appointing specialist educators for special needs education; establishing assistance services organised to meet the needs of the disabled people in this area; ensuring full accessibility and inclusion of family groups and relevant organisations at every stage of the educational process;

Eencouraging the construction of workplaces and work tools suitable for the disabled to work and the use of new technologies;

making necessary arrangements in the planning of residential and work areas, public transportation to facilitate the life of the disabled people; issuing building permits accordingly;

Establishing an office for the disabled in all local governments; establishing "Disabled Advisory Councils" composed of representatives of disabled organisations in the provinces, especially in big cities, and implementing the advisory decisions which will be taken by the municipal councils;

Implementing all necessary legal and social arrangements for the disabled people to lead a life that is worthy of human dignity, without being dependent on others;

Providing a budget for public solutions in social policy for the disabled;

Increasing the services provided for the medical and social rehabilitation of the disabled;

Providing special support for education and health service workers for the disabled;

Establishing consultation centres and solidarity services for the disabled people and carers of the disabled people;

Providing psychological support services for individuals who take on disabled people;

Participation of the disabled citizens in the process of solving all kinds of problems related to the disabled, and to have a say and decision.

19- FREE AND CREATIVE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

The LEFT Party regards creative and free cultural and artistic production as one of the most important parts of social liberation. It opposes pressure and bans on cultural activities.

The Left Party fights for:

Breaking the dominance of capital which commercialises and sterilises cultural and artistic life;

Ensuring access to the cultural and artistic products of the workers;

Providing the right to speak and control over the means and environments of cultural and artistic production, education, publication and exhibition to cultural workers and creators through autonomous cultural and art councils;

Creating extensive public resources by local and central administrations for individual artists and writers as well as groups of artists, writers and thinkers to develop their ideas, produce their products and present them to the society, and to make these resources available without discrimination;

Making necessary arrangements for workers in the cultural industries to have a say in the production of their own professional fields and to control their working environment from the bottom up;

Abolition of regulatory bodies such as the RTÜK for the media; instead, making the necessary arrangements for the control of violations of rights against individuals, institutions and communities by organisations composed of media workers and viewers, and for the compensation of damages caused;

Direct management of the use of resources by organisations of cultural workers. Recognising the universal nature of cultural development, we believe that it can be achieved through the allocation of public resources to be used in the creation of international events, meetings, joint productions, and exhibition opportunities.