Like many other organizations, the TİKB was affected by the waves of arrests after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état; it was rebuilt beginning in 1987–88 and resumed its activities in Turkey and abroad.
The third conference was held in 1993 and the fourth in January 2010; both were the occasion of divisions,[2][7] one of which led to the foundation in 1998 or 1999 of a breakaway TİKB-B, the B standing for "Bolshevik",[5][9] which formed around the newsletter Proleter Devrimci Duruş ('Proletarian Revolutionary Attitude').
[5][8] The Turkish Kurdish United Revolutionary Forces Platform (BDGP) has declared itself "in full unity of action" with TİKB and other Turkish Communist groups, and TİKB claimed responsibility for the February 1997 killing of Nihat Uygun, a Nationalist Movement Party district chairman, as revenge for the "slaughter" of Kurds.
[8] According to an October 1982 report by the independent organization Alternative Türkeihilfe [de], court martial proceedings in Istanbul and Ankara included 113 defendants who were accused of being members of TİKB, with the death penalty being requested in 22 cases.
[6] There were several police raids and legal proceedings against Alınteri, resulting in suspensions of publication, fines, and imprisonment of reporters and the editor in chief.
[25] In 1989 Yaşar Ayaşlı, a leading member of the TİKB, published a book titled Adressiz Sorgular ('Unaddressed Interrogations'), in which he recounted his withstanding torture after his arrest in 1985.
[26] The book was confiscated and both Ayaşlı and the publisher, Ünsal Öztürk, were charged with Communist propaganda, disrespecting the security forces, and praising a criminal act, but were released in March 1990.
[27] A revised version of the book was published in 2014 by an authorial collective under the name of Osman Yaşar Yoldaşçan,[28] who was killed in Istanbul in September 1980 while making armed resistance against arrest.
[29] Nevin Berktaş published a book titled Hücreler ('Cells') in 2000, recounting her experiences while imprisoned in Adana after being accused of being a member of TİKB-B following the 1980 coup and sentenced to 18 years in prison.