Communist Turkey

Let's assume that things go the same for Turkey following the first world war, and Ataturk is still able to capture all the territories of modern Turkey. Now, let's say that after this is accomplished, Ataturk is assassinated, and the power vacuum and resulting power struggle allows for the Communist's to take control.
How might this effect the resulting history of the Balkans, or the middle east, or even general relations between Communism and Islam(assuming there is a profound impact).
 
Was there any strong homegrown communist movement in Turkey at this time? Most communist Turkey scenarios that I have seen suggested hinge on some sort of Soviet invasion of the country before, during, or in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
 
Was there any strong homegrown communist movement in Turkey at this time? Most communist Turkey scenarios that I have seen suggested hinge on some sort of Soviet invasion of the country before, during, or in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
There actually was a Turkish communist part active from 1920 to 1988, though it would later merge with various other parties to form the freedom and solidarity party.
 
Let's assume that things go the same for Turkey following the first world war, and Ataturk is still able to capture all the territories of modern Turkey. Now, let's say that after this is accomplished, Ataturk is assassinated, and the power vacuum and resulting power struggle allows for the Communist's to take control.

If Ataturk is assassinated, most likely he is succeeded by Inonu earlier than in OTL. There is no reason at all to think that the Communists would gain power. In the first place, they were too weak; and in the second place, the Turkish Communist Party--even after its original leaders were murdered, possibly with Kemal's culpability--supported the Kemalist regime which it saw as leading a national democratic revolution and as reasonably friendly to Soviet Russia. (In spite of this, the Kemalists never really trusted the Communists and eventually had them outlawed.) "As Turkey’s Kemalist leadership openly started to root out all communist activity in the country, world communist gatherings issued their protests – but through it all, Moscow and Ankara stayed on good terms until the start of the Cold War." https://theconversation.com/why-rev...ed-turkish-nationalists-over-communists-87151
 
During the 1970's the Turkish Communists were quite powerful. It was one of the reasons why the military couped the government in 1980. The big problem was that there was not one unified Communist Party but dozens (and I'm not kidding, Turkish Communist Parties split even faster than Trotskyists).

If you could have find a way to let them unify or that one party out of the dozens becomes the leading voice the military coup in 1980 could trigger a civil war which the Turkish Communists could win if they play their cards right (for example by promising federalism and allying with the new-founded PKK; they also need to gain the trust of the more conservative population in the countryside).
 
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