Founded in 1997, the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party ) is a Trotskyist party in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. One of its leaders Doğan Tarkan has links to Liberation Movement, before 1980. DSİP declares its adherence to Trotskyism

Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...

 and libertarian socialism

Libertarian socialism

Libertarian socialism is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production...

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In 1997, DSİP was founded. In an opposition grouping within DSİP named Antikapitalist

Anti-capitalist (Turkey)

Anti-capitalist was a Trotskyist organisation in Turkey. It was part of the International Socialist Tendency led by the Socialist Workers Party ....

was formed following a split in the DSİP. The group had no relation with DSİP after that split.

The group didn't participate in elections in Turkey but they supported left-wing electoral alliances. At 2007

Turkish general election, 2007

Turkey's 16th general election was held on July 22, 2007 and resulted in a resounding victory for the incumbent Justice and Development Party...

 elections, they declared support for the independent candidates of Democratic Society Party

Democratic Society Party

The Democratic Society Party was a Kurdish Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social democratic, and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was considered to be the successor of the Democratic People's Party...

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The DSIP is the Turkish section of the International Socialist Tendency.