The Communist Party of Turkmenistan (in Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Kommunistik Partiýasy (TKP)/Түркменистаның Коммунистик Партиясы (ТКП), in Russian: Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана) is a banned communist political party in Turkmenistan that was founded in 1998.
It was dissolved in December 1991 and reconstituted as the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan that has ruled the country since then.
In 1998, a constituent congress of the TKP was held and until 2002 it operated semi-legally.
In that period Serdar Rahimow, a former ambassador to Pakistan became the leader of the KPT and the party became a member of the UCP-CPSU.
On 25 November 2002, President Saparmurat Niyazov's motorcade was fired upon at about 7 a.m. in downtown Ashgabat.