KGÖ (Communist Youth Organization) is founded on the 25th of November 1994 as a decision and result of the Unity Revolution, the will that brought MLCP (Marxist Leninist Communist Party) into the scene.

KGÖ, the massive communist organisation of young workers, labourers and students from Turkish and Kurdish nations and all other national minorities, is a voluntary and disciplined unity of the most conscious, altruistic and militant youth. It relates with its party, MLCP, on the basis of Leninist principle: ideological-political dependency and organisational independency. Its principle of organisation is democratic centralism.

There has always been a special role of the youth on the development of revolutionary struggle and communist movement in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. The effects of the 1968 youth movement and revolutionary wave that erupted all over the world were also echoed in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. By realizing a revolutionary breakthrough, the leaders such as Deniz Gezmis, Mahir Cayan and Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, who came up as the leaders of the youth movement, became the founders of organisations which are still being considered as historical heritage by the revolutionary movement of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan also today. Again, the youth movement and youth leaders of the period had great influence on the creation and development of the Kurdish national movement.

This role of the youth continued throughout 70s'. The student youth and universities, holding an important place within the enlightenment of workers and labourers, represented one of the sections that were targeted by the military fascist coup of 12 September 1980. Together with the coup, the universities of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan were affiliated to a fascist organisation called YOK (Higher Education Body), and, by this, they tried to educate a generation of youth that do not think and question, and to keep universities away from the politics. In order to extinguish the revolutionary potential in universities and to implement practices of paid-education, the YOK were led to be institutionalized. Compulsory religious lessons were added to the primary and high school curriculum. The masses of worker, unemployed and student youth living in the labourer neighbourhoods were kept under the offensive of degeneration that involves the drug and popular culture bombardment.

Although these attempts -which were combined with the negative effects created on the international scale by the events of 89-90s'- were successful on certain levels, the youth continued to be the rapid political reflex-giving, the most lively and vivacious section of the society. Since its establishment, the YOK became the target of the anger and resistance of the youth.

In its foundation congress, MLCP manifested the necessity of founding a youth organisation, and it, therefore, has put into practice of its goal in very short time.

KGÖ was founded and organised within the flames of the youth struggle and on the footsteps of MLCP It has led important historical processes particularly within the fight of the student youth.

Despite the involvement of important dynamics by the student youth struggle at the time of its foundation, the lack of strength of vanguards in overcoming the attitude of only to protest, the lack of a perspective in advancing the youth movement on the grounds of concrete achievements and the influence of reformist youth groups were hindering the movement's forwarding with leaps.

At this period, the YOK had occupied the agenda with the practices of increasing the tuition fees for the universities, effecting wide masses of the youth. Both in the universities and in the high schools, the fascist repression and paid-education was becoming the target of the fights of the student youth. However, the revolutionary, democrat and patriotic youth groups were experiencing the lack of perspective or weakness in advancing the movement. This period became the period in which KGÖ quickly came to the fore within the youth struggle and took to the head of the struggle. It threw itself into the fore with the slogan: "The fascist chain is going to be broken in the link of paid-education". With its direction of organising a struggle on the basis of gaining rights, it led the university students' fight against the fees. It was symbolized within the period of booming that begun with militant hunger strikes in universities which later turned into occupation and exceeded to the pouring of thousands of university students to the squares on 4-5 February 1996.

With a perspective praising the question of education as the question of workers, labourers and oppressed peoples, it organised a Democratic Education Conference on the level of high schools and universities in order to unite in the struggle of all those sections of the society.

KGÖ became the young heart of MLCP's history written under fire. It has lost Sengul Boran, the secretary of Istanbul Province Committee, and Ozgur Evrim Gocen, the substitute member of Ankara Province Committee only in its first year. While Sengul Boran became a martyr as a result of a bomb explosion in her hands at the military training camp, Ozgur Evrim Gocen was crushed by a gendarmerie vehicle in ODTU (Middle East Technical University).

It has tried to reply and organise reaction on the front of young masses against all social problems in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. It was in the frontlines of the barricades of the uprising in the Gazi District of Istanbul. It took part in the struggle against disappearances under police custody. It participated in the prison resistances both in the actions and campaigns that are organised outside the prisons and also inside the prisons, through the death fast resistances in 1996 and 2000. Erkut Direkci, who caught liver cancer in prison in 1996, became immortal as the third martyr of KGÖ in 1998.

KGÖ defended determinedly the Kurdish youth's and Kurdish people's demand for education in mother-tongue. It was the component of the campaign for education in mother-tongue started by the Kurdish youth in 2001-2002. Although the campaign, at the beginning, had come across with intense state offensive in the form of expulsion from the school, detention and imprisonment, it was later ended with the state taking limited back steps due to the determined stance of the youth.

It became the first youth organisation in the youth movement that has shown interest to the organisation and problems of young women in universities, and leaded the gathering of a conference on the subject as a first time in our geography.

As a youth organisation, KGÖ has organised 3 Congresses during its 9 years of history. This is something very difficult to see even in the practices of many revolutionary parties among the revolutionary movement of Turkey. Through these congresses, it has shown a practice that came to the fore on the point of implementation of socialist democracy and the principle of organisational independency. It elected its leadership by convening its first congress during a process of intense struggle such as the process of 96 death fast action. It gathered its 2nd Congress in 2000 and the 3rd in 2003.

KGÖ, which has gone into the direction of organising the very wide youth masses under the basic slogan "to the massive communist youth organisation!" just after its 3rd Congress, today also continues with a great will to its march towards the centre of the youth movement of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan.