İsmail Bilen (October 18, 1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician. He was elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey in 1974.
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Ismail Bilen (political pseudonym - Bostandzhi Marat) (1902–1983).
A prominent leader of Turkish and World Communist movement.
General Secretary of the Turkish Communist Party from 1974 to 1983.
1922 – Joined the Communist Party.
1927 – Elected as a member of Central Committee.
1927–1929 and 1933–1936 – Served as a member of the Political Bureau
and Secretary of the Central Committee.
1937 and 1943 – Representative of the CPT in the ECCI (COMINTERN).
6 June 1974 – Elected as General Secretary of the Party's Central Committee.
April 1983 – Chairman of the party.
References
- Bilen, İsmail: TKP MK Genel Sekreteri Kısa Biyografi,