Turkish Left

Turkish Left (in Turkish: Türksolu) is a weekly ultra-nationalist and socialist magazine as the official organ of the Turkish Left (in Turkish: Türk Solu) is a nationalist group in Turkey. It is the continuation of Yön, an influential political magazine in Turkey in the 1960s.Türk Solu was formed following a split in the Workers Party (IP). The magazine is led by Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu and is based in Istanbul.

They consider themselves as nationalist, socialist and kemalist. They often promote Nationalism, Socialism and Secularism. However, unlike other Socialists, they criticise Marx often and they consider Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Sultan Galiev as ideologues of Turkic Socialism. They are influenced by Attila İlhan, Doğan Avcıoğlu and Şevket Süreyya Aydemir also. They have been in favour of Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Muammar Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez because of their Socialism and Third Worldism, Rauf Denktaş and Rebiya Kadeer because of their Pan-Turkism.

They support good relations with Turkic and Islamic countries and they view the USA, Israel, EU, Russia and China as enemies of Turkey.