List of political parties in Turkey
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Template:Short description Template:Multiple issues Template:Politics of Turkey Turkey is a presidential republic with a multi-party system. Major parties are defined as political parties that received more than 7% of the votes in the latest general election and/or represented in parliament. Minor parties are defined as political parties that have fulfilled the requirements of the Supreme Election Council (Yüksek Seçim Kurulu in Turkish, abbreviated as YSK) and don't have any representatives in the parliament. Forming a political party without prior permission is a constitutional right, but the Interior Ministry may delay registering a new party for years,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> so the party cannot stand in elections.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
If the ID and serial number of a person's Turkish identity card is known, anyone can query their political party membership via the website of the General Prosecution Office of the Supreme Court of Appeal or mobile phone messages.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Political parties represented in the Turkish Parliament
Template:Main General information about the parties holding seats in the Grand National Assembly as of June 2023:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Other political parties
Other parties eligible to contest in elections (by March 2023)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
General information on other political parties registered in the Ministry of Interior:
| Template:Tooltip | Party Name | Turkish name | Leader(s) | Position | Ideology | Date of foundation | |
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| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | TSİP | Socialist Workers' Party of Turkey | Türkiye Sosyalist İşçi Partisi | Turgut Koçak | Far-left | Communism, Anti-revisionism | 1993 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | LDP | Liberal Democratic Party | Liberal Demokrat Parti | Gültekin Tırpancı | Centre | Classical liberalism | 1994 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | DSİP | Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party | Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi | Tuna Emren, Şenol Karakaş | Far-left | Trotskyism | 1997 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | YURT-P | Homeland Party | Yurt Partisi | Sadettin Tantan | Centre-right | Conservatism | 2002 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | DYP | True Path Party | Doğru Yol Partisi | Cenk Küpeli | Centre-right | Liberal conservatism | 2007 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | DİP | Revolutionary Workers' Party | Devrimci İşçi Partisi | Ömer Sungur Savran | Far-left | Trotskyism | 2007 |
| ULUSAL | National Party | Ulusal Parti | Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu | Far-left | Nationalism | 2010 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | Halkların Demokratik Partisi | Cahit Kırkazak Sultan Özcan |
Centre-left to left-wing | Minority rights, Kurdish nationalism | 2012 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | 1920 TKP | Socialist Liberation Party | Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi | İsmail Kaplan | Far-left | Communism, Marxism–Leninism | 2012 |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | YSP | Green Left Party | Yeşil Sol Parti | Eylem Tuncaelli, Naci Sönmez | Left-wing | Green politics | 2012 |
| TURAN | Turan Movement Party | Turan Hareketi Partisi | Varol Esen | Far-right | Nationalism, Turanism | 2014 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | MMP | National Struggle Party | Milli Mücadele Partisi | Ahmet Kaya | Nationalism Kemalism |
2014 | |
| KP | Women's Party | Kadın Partisi | Fatma Benal Yazgan | Feminism | 2014 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | MEP | Centre Party | Merkez Parti | Pelin Gündeş Bakır | Centre to centre-right | Liberal | 2014 |
| DEZA-PAR | Democracy Time Party | Demokrasi Zamanı Partisi | İlhami Çağrıtekin | Zaza nationalism | 2016 | ||
| OSMANLI | Ottoman Party | Osmanlı Partisi | Habip Geleş | Far-right | Neo-Ottomanism Turkish nationalism |
2016 | |
| ÖTÜKEN | Otuken Union Party | Ötüken Birliği Partisi | Çağatay Korkut Körüklü | Far-right | Nationalism, Pan-Turkism | 2017 | |
| HÜRRİYET | Liberty Party | Hürriyet Partisi | Ali Gül | Centre | Liberalism, Egalitarianism, Anti-corruption | 2025 | |
Former
Inactive parties
The following parties are inactive, and they are not listed in the active political parties list by the Supreme Court of Appeal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
| Party Name | Turkish name | Template:Tooltip | Ideology | Position | |
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| Democracy Party of Turkey & Kurdistan | Türkiye Kürdistan Demokrasi Partisi | T-KDP | Kurdish nationalism | Big tent | |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Alternative and Change Party | Alternatif ve Değişim Partisi | AL PARTİ | Conservative | Right-wing |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Nation and Justice Party | Millet ve Adalet Partisi | MİLAD | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | People's Ascent Party | Halkın Yükselişi Partisi | HYP | Social democracy | Centre-left |
| Turkey's Change Movement | Türkiye Değişim Hareketi | TDH | Social democracy | Centre-left | |
| Social Reconciliation Reform and Development Party | Toplumsal Uzlaşma Reform ve Kalkınma Partisi | TURK-P | Nationalism | ||
| Independent Republican Party | Bağımsız Cumhuriyet Partisi | BCP | Nationalism | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Electronic Democracy Party | Elektronik Demokrasi Partisi | e-Parti | Liberal | Single-issue |
Defunct and historical parties
These are some of the parties that were dismantled because of their internal dynamics, mergers, inability to find electoral base or through governmental intervention, for instance following the Turkish coups d'état.
| Defunct and historical parties | |||||||||||||
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| Party Name | Position | Notes | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Alternative Party (Alternatif Parti) | Right-wing | Conservative | ||||||||||
| Participatory Democracy Party (Katılımcı Demokrasi Partisi) | Centre-left | dissolved in 2019 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Anatolia Party (Anadolu Partisi) | Centre-left | dissolved in 2015 | ||||||||||
| Democratic Left People's Party (Demokratik Sol Halk Partisi) | Centre-left | dissolved in 2010 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | New Turkey Party (2002) (Yeni Türkiye Partisi) | Centre-left | joined CHP in 2004 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Social Democracy Party (SODEP) (Sosyal Demokrat Parti) | Centre-left | merged with People's Party to form Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) in 1985 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | People's Party (Halkçı Parti) | merged with SODEP to form Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) in 1985 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Social Democratic Populist Party (Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti) | Centre-left | merged with CHP in 1995 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Socialist Democracy Party (Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi) | Left-wing | merged to Peoples' Democratic Party in 2015 | ||||||||||
| People's Communist Party of Turkey (Halkın Türkiye Komünist Partisi) | Far-left | dissolved in 2017 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Republican Villagers Nation Party (Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi) | Nationalist | merger of two parties, replaced by MHP in 1969 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Nationalist Task Party (Milliyetçi Çalışma Partisi) | Nationalist | replaced by MHP in 1992 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Nationalist Democracy Party (Milliyetçi Demokrasi Partisi) | Nationalist | dissolved 1986 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Rights and Equality Party (Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi) | Nationalist, Populist | dissolved 2019 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Greens of Turkey (Yeşiller Partisi) | Green politics | merged with EDP to form Greens and the Left Party of the Future (Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi) in 2012. | ||||||||||
| Equality and Democracy Party (Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi) | Green politics | merged with the Greens to form Greens and the Left Party of the Future (Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi) in 2012. | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Justice Party (Adalet Partisi) | Conservative, right-wing | closed on 12 September 1980 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" align="center" | | Communist Party (Komünist Parti) | Far-left | Member of United June Movement, Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties and International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties. Founded in 2014, Dissolved in 2017 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Democrat Party (Demokrat Parti) | Centre-right | 1946-1961 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Nation Party (Millet Partisi) | Right-wing | 1948–1953 and 1962–1977 | ||||||||||
| New Party (Yeni Parti) | dissolved 2012 | ||||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Democratic Party (Demokrat Parti) | Centre-right | 1970-1980 | ||||||||||
| Democratic Center Party (Demokratik Merkez Partisi) | Right-wing | merged into DYP on September 14, 1991 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | True Path Party (Doğru Yol Partisi) | Centre-right | merged with Motherland Party into Democrat Party (Turkey, 2007) in 2007 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | New Turkey Party (1961) (Yeni Türkiye Partisi) | Right-wing | joined to Justice Party in 1973 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | People's Voice Party (Halkın Sesi Partisi) | Right-wing | dissolved in 2012 | ||||||||||
| Turkey Party (Türkiye Partisi) | Centre-right | dissolved in 2012 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Liberal Republican Party (Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası) | Centre-right, Liberal | dissolved itself in 1930 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Liberty Party (Hürriyet Partisi) | Liberal | joined CHP in 1958 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | National Salvation Party (Milli Selâmet Partisi) | Sunni Islamist | closed on 12 September 1980 | ||||||||||
| National Development Party (Milli Kalkınma Partisi) | Sunni Islamist | ||||||||||||
Banned parties
These are some of the parties that were banned through extraordinary courts or the Constitutional Court of Turkey.
| Banned parties | |||||||||||||
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| Party Name | Position | Notes | |||||||||||
| Fatherland Party (Vatan Partisi) |
Left-wing | banned in 1954 | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Workers Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi) | Far-left | banned in 1971, represented in the national senate in early 1960s. (1961–1987) eventually merged with the Communist Party of Turkey in 1987. | ||||||||||
| United Communist Party of Turkey (Türkiye Birleşik Komünist Partisi) | Far-left | banned in 1991; ban found contrary to Article 11 (freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights, 1998 (1987–1991) | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Labour Party (Emek Partisi) | Far-left | ban found contrary to Article 11 (freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2005, and re-established | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Progressive Republican Party (Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası) | Conservative | banned on 3 June 1925 (1924–1925) | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | National Order Party (Milli Nizam Partisi) | Sunni Islamist | banned on 20 May 1971 (1970–1971) | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) | Sunni Islamist | banned on 16 January 1998; (1983-1998)
ban upheld by European Convention on Human Rights 2003 | ||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi) | Sunni Islamist | banned on 22 June 2001; (1998-2001) ECHR case withdrawn by applicant 2005 | ||||||||||
| People's Labor Party (Halkın Emek Partisi) | Kurdish nationalist | banned in July 1993 (1990-1993) | |||||||||||
| Democracy Party (Demokrasi Partisi) | Kurdish nationalist | banned on 16 June 1994; found contrary to Article 11 (freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2002 (1993-1994) | |||||||||||
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | People’s Democracy Party (Halkın Demokrasi Partisi) | Kurdish nationalist | banned on 13 March 2003; found contrary to Article 11 (freedom of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2010 (1994-2003) | ||||||||||
| Democratic Society Party (Demokratik Toplum Partisi) | Kurdish nationalist | banned on 11 December 2009; ECHR case ongoing (2005-2009)Template:Citation needed | |||||||||||
| Great Turkey Party (Büyük Türkiye Partisi) | Turkish nationalist | banned in 1983 | |||||||||||
See also
- Politics of Turkey
- List of political parties in the Ottoman Empire
- Communist Party of Turkey (disambiguation)
Notes
References
External links
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