Hikmet Kıvılcımlı

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Hikmet Ali Kıvılcımlı (1902 in Pristina – 1971 in Belgrade) was a Turkish communist leader, theoretician, writer, publicist, and translator. He was a founder of the Vatan Partisi (VP).

Career

He studied medicine at the military medical college in Istanbul. He was a member of the Türkiye Komünist Partisi (TKP) in the early 1920s. He published in Aydınlık in 1925.

Between 1925 and 1950 he was arrested frequently and served several jail terms. He criticized the TKP because of its policy towards the administration of the Demokrat Parti (DP) in the 1950s. He was founder of the Vatan Partisi (VP) in 1954, and founder and director of the Tarihsel Maddecilik Yay Nlar publishing house in 1965, which published many of his works. He founded the Işsizlik ve Pahalilikla Savaş Dernegi (IPSD) in 1967.

Publications

Among his publications are Türkiye Işçi Sinifinin Sosyal Varliği (The Social Existence of the Turkish Working Class), 1935; Tarih, Devrim, Sosyalizm (History, Revolution, Socialism), 1965; his magnum opus, Tarih Tezi (The Thesis of History), 1974; and Yol: TKP'nin elestirel tarihi (The Way: Critical History of the Communist Party of Turkey), consisting of a series of texts, written for the Central Committee of the TKP in 1932, published in 1979–1982. He contributed a great many articles in Aydinlik, Sosyalist, Türk Solu, and Ant between 1965 and 1971. After his death Fuat Fegan became custodian of Kivilcimli's papers and political inheritance.

Persondata
Name	Hikmet Kvilicimli
Alternative names	Hikmet Kıvlıcımlı
Short description	Political activist and author
Date of birth	1902
Place of birth	Pristina
Date of death	1971
Place of death	Belgrade

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