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Progressive Youth Association (Turkey)

İlerici Gençler Derneği, IGD

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[Flag] image located by Esteban Rivera, 9 January 2023


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Presentation of the IGD

The "İlerici Gençler Derneği, IGD" (English: Progressive Youth Association, PYA) was established on January 5, 1976 and it was the youth organization of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).

The organization was banned on November 6, 1979 by the "İstanbul Sıkıyönetim Komutanlığı" (English: Istanbul Martial Law Command), but continued its activities until the September 12, 1980 military coup d'etat. The İGD underwent a number of organizational changes during the military regime as the youth wing of the TKP, which was dissolved in a series of mergers after forming the United Communist Party of Turkey (TBKP) together with the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP), joining a new legal Socialist Unity Party in the early 1990s.
Sources: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Youth_Association

Esteban Rivera, 9 January 2023


Flag of the IGD

Image above cropped from this newspaper: https://www.tustav.org/yayinlar/sureli_yayinlar/iyg/iyg_sayi_60.pdf, page 2, which commemorates the "11th World Festival of Youth and Students" (1978), found on this repository, "Türkiye Sosyal Tarih Araştırma Vakfı, TÜSTAV" (English: Social History Research Foundation
of Turkey, SHRFTU) (https://www.tustav.org/sureli-yayinlar-arsivi/atilim) issued on July 20, 1978. Even though the original image is a black and white picture, judging by its origins (a Communist related organization) and by another poster (https://www.tustav.org/yayinlar/afisler/TKP-igd-1-mayis-77-1.pdf) of the time, he colors are most likely a red horizontal background with the organization's initials (in Turkish) in white capitals in the middle.

Esteban Rivera, 9 January 2023