left-wing organisations (see reference 1) 65% of the members are aged 14 to 25, 16.8% 25 to 30 and 17.5% are older than 30. University graduates make up 20.4% of the members, high school graduates 33.5%, secondary school graduates 14%, primary school graduates 29.9% and illiterates 1.9% (while they have no sampled literate non-graduate members). Involvement in Syrian Civil War MLKP has reportedly been sending volunteers to Syria to fight with the PYD's People's Protection Units (YPG) of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) since 2012. At least four of these fighters have been killed in battle as of February 2015—one during the Battle of Ras al-Ayn, and three during the Siege of Kobanî. MLKP has also declared its intention to form a leftist international brigade within the YPG, modeled after the famous International Brigades who fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. The party released a video in late January 2015 purporting to show several Spanish- and German-speaking communist volunteers from Europe among its ranks in Jazira Canton. In March 2015, Ivana Hoffmann, a MLKP member and German national and daughter of a German mother and a Togolese father, was reported to be killed in clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The MLKP has set up a political branch in PYD-governed territories as well, known as MLKP (Rojava). MLKP fighters have also joined Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) formations fighting in northern Iraq in defence of the Yezidi minority of Sinjar. See also List of illegal political parties in Turkey Socialist Party of the Oppressed References External links Etha - news portal related to MLKP Atılım - newspaper related to MLKP 1994 establishments in Turkey Anti-ISIL factions in Turkey Banned communist parties Banned political parties in Turkey Communist militant groups Communist parties in Turkey Far-left politics in Turkey Guerrilla organizations Hoxhaist parties International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations International Freedom Battalion Kurdish organisations Left-wing militant groups in Turkey Military units and factions of the Syrian civil war Organizations designated as terrorist by Turkey Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement Political parties established in 1994 Political parties in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist