Parties

Encyclopedia of Turkey · 10 items

Right

Justice and Development Party

Party of the incumbent head of government

euroscepticism, right-wing populism, economic nationalism

Founded: 2001
Current leader: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Centre-left

Republican People's Party

social democracy, secularism, Kemalism

Founded: 1923
Current leader: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Right

Nationalist Movement Party

nationalism, Pan-Turkism, anti-communism

Founded: 1969
Current leader: Devlet Bahçeli

Left

Peoples' Democratic Party

democratic socialism, anti-capitalism, laicism

Founded: 2012
Current leader: Pervin Buldan

Left

Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party

libertarian socialism

Founded: 2012
Current leader: Tuncer Bakırhan

Centre-right

İYİ Party

Kemalism, liberal conservatism, Turkish nationalism

Founded: 2017
Current leader: Meral Akşener

Felicity Party

Islamism, euroscepticism, Millî Görüş

Founded: 2001
Current leader: Temel Karamollaoğlu

Centre-right

Democracy and Progress Party

parliamentary system, classical liberalism, pro-Europeanism

Founded: 2020

Communist Party of Turkey-Marxist–Leninist

Marxism–Leninism–Maoism

Founded: 1972

Left

Communist Party of Turkey

communism, Marxism–Leninism, anti-revisionism

Founded: 1993

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