Progressive Youth Association
The Progressive Youth Association (Turkish: İlerici Gençler Derneği) was the youth wing of the erstwhile Communist Party of Turkey. The İGD was founded on January 5, 1976.
It made close relations with trade unions and democratic mass organizations, took part in May Day celebrations, protests against DGMs (Courts of State Security) and campaigns against the ultra-right party MHP and its youth organization. The organisation arranged series of mass activities such as «National Independence and Democracy» meetings, «National Independence Week», anniversaries and solidarity activities, organized campaigns on some issues as life-security, education freedom, and democratization of textbooks. It made actions together with Progressive Students’ Association (İLD), Apprentice Assoc. (ÇIRAK – DER) and Association of Amateur Athletes. As a reason of its intensive efforts for action-unity of youth, stepped forward to the platform of action-unity with some other youth organizations such as Genç Öncü, Sosyalist Gençler Birliği and Devrimci Demokratik Kültür Derneği (DDKD).
İGD was disbanded along with TKP, as TKP was dissolved into a series of mergers.