List of political parties in Turkey

Turkey is a presidential democracy with a multi-party system. Major parties are defined as political parties that received more than 10% 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 Committee (Yüksek Seçim Kurulu in Turkish, abbreviated as YSK) and whose names have been listed on ballots.

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Major parties
Parties represented in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
# Abbr. Party Name Leader(s) Position Ideology MPs Metro.Mun. Municipalities National Aff. European Aff. International Aff. Year of foundation Members
1 AK Parti Justice and Development Party
Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi		 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Right-wing Social conservatism,[1] Islamism[2]
289 / 600
15 / 30
737 / 1,351
 People's Alliance - - 2001 11,157,656
2 CHP Republican People's Party
Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi		 Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Centre-left Social democracy,
Kemalism
135 / 600
11 / 30
262 / 1,351
 Nation Alliance Party of European Socialists Socialist International,
Progressive Alliance		 1923, 1992 (re-foundation) 1,250,635
3 HDP Peoples' Democratic Party
Halkların Demokratik Partisi		 Sezai Temelli,
Pervin Buldan		 Left-wing Democratic socialism,
Regionalism
56 / 600
3 / 30
62 / 1,351
 - Party of European Socialists Progressive Alliance 2012 41,039
4 MHP Nationalist Movement Party
Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi		 Devlet Bahçeli Far-right Ultranationalism,
Pan-Turkism, Social conservatism
48 / 600
1 / 30
234 / 1,351
 People's Alliance - - 1969 490,131
5 İYİ Parti İYİ Party
İYİ Parti		 Meral Akşener Centre to Centre-right Turkish nationalism,
Kemalism,
Social justice
37 / 600
0 / 30
25 / 1,351
 Nation Alliance - - 2017 330,450
6 DP Democrat Party
Demokrat Parti		 Gültekin Uysal Centre-right Liberal conservatism
2 / 600
0 / 30
8 / 1,351
 - - - 2007 432,167
7 TİP Workers' Party of Turkey
Türkiye İşçi Partisi		 Erkan Baş Far-left Communism,
Marxism-Leninism
2 / 600
0 / 30
0 / 1,351
 - - International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties 2017 1,470
8 BBP Great Union Party
Büyük Birlik Partisi		 Mustafa Destici Far-right Sunni Islamism,
Conservatism
1 / 600
0 / 30
10 / 1,351

People's Alliance

 - - 1993 29,192
9 DBP Democratic Regions Party
Demokratik Bölgeler Partisi		 Salihe Aydeniz

Keskin Bayındır

Left-wing Kurdish nationalism
1 / 600
0 / 30
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2008 7,318
10 DEVA Democracy and Progress Party
Demokrasi ve Atılım Partisi		 Ali Babacan Centre[3] to Center-right[4] Liberalism,
Liberal democracy,
Pro-Europeanism
1 / 600
0 / 30
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2020 15,862
11 SAADET Felicity Party
Saadet Partisi		 Temel Karamollaoğlu Far-right Sunni Islamism,
Conservatism
1 / 600
0 / 30
20 / 1,351
 - - - 2001 216,841
12 YP Innovation Party
Yenilik Partisi		 Öztürk Yılmaz Centre Civic nationalism,
Kemalism
1 / 600
0 / 30
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2020 420
Parties below the parliamentary threshold in 2018 General Election
VP Patriotic Party
Vatan Partisi		 Doğu Perinçek Far-left Eurasianism,
Left-wing nationalism		 - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 1992 19,281
HÜRPAR Free Cause Party
Hür Dava Partisi		 Mehmet Yavuz Far-right Islamism
Pan-Islamism
Religious conservatism		 - - - - - - 2012 8,737
Other parties contested in recent general elections
HAKPAR Rights and Freedoms Party
Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi		 Abdullatif Epözdemir Left-wing Kurdish nationalism - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2002 1,301
HKP People's Liberation Party
Halkın Kurtuluş Partisi		 Nurullah Ankut Far-left Marxism–Leninism,
Kıvılcımlıism		 - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2005 358
BTP Independent Turkey Party
Bağımsız Türkiye Partisi		 Hüseyin Baş Centre Economic nationalism,
Alevi and Shia rights		 - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2001 6,260
DSP Democratic Left Party
Demokratik Sol Parti		 Önder Aksakal Centre-left Democratic socialism,
Kemalism		 - -
7 / 1,351
 - - - 1985 33,068
LDP Liberal Democratic Party
Liberal Demokrat Parti		 Gültekin Tırpancı Centre Classical liberalism - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 1994 5,227
MİLLET Nation Party
Millet Partisi		 Aykut Edibali Centre-right Conservatism,
Turkish nationalism		 - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 1992 4,260
DYP True Path Party
Doğru Yol Partisi		 Çetin Özaçıkgöz Centre-right Liberal conservatism - -
0 / 1,351
 - - - 2007 279
Number of MPs: "Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Milletvekilleri Dağılımı". Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (in Turkish). Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Retrieved 2021-02-06., Official member numbers, foundation years and leaders: "Siyasi Parti Genel Bilgileri". Yargıtay Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2020-11-15., Municipalities: "31 Mart 2019 Mahalli İdareler Seçimleri". T.C. Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish). Supreme Electoral Council (Turkey). Retrieved 2020-11-06.

Minor parties

Minor parties did not participate in the 2015 General Election are:

Party Name Turkish name Abbr. Leader(s) Ideology Position Date of foundation
Communist Party of Turkey (current) Türkiye Komunist

Partisi

 TKP Kemal Okuyan Communism

Marxism–Leninism

 Far-left 1993
Socialist Liberation PartyToplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi 1920 TKP Communism

Marxism–Leninism

 Left-wing2012
Left PartySol Parti ÖDP Alper TaşSocialism Left-wing1994
Labour PartyEmek Partisi EMEP Selma GürkanCommunism

Marxism–Leninism

 Left-wing1996
Revolutionary Socialist Workers' PartyDevrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi DSİP Şevket Doğan Tarkan Trotskyism Left-wing1997
Revolutionary Workers' PartyDevrimci İşçi Partisi DİP Ömer Sungur Savran Trotskyism Left-wing2007
Socialist Workers' Party of TurkeyTürkiye Sosyalist İşçi Partisi TSİP Turgut Koçak Socialism

Marxism–Leninism

 Left-wing1993
Conservative Ascension PartyMuhafazakâr Yükseliş Partisi MYP Conservative2013
Homeland PartyYurt Partisi YURT-P Conservative2002
Motherland PartyAnavatan Partisi ANAP İbrahim ÇelebiLiberal2011
Great Turan Movement PartyTuran Hareketi Partisi TURAN Nationalism, TuranismFar-right 2014
Ötüken Union PartyÖtüken Birliği Partisi ÖTÜKEN Nationalism, Pan-TurkismFar-right 2017
National PartyUlusal Parti ULUSAL Gökçe Fırat ÇulhaoğluNationalismFar-right 2010
National Struggle PartyMilli Mücadele Partisi MMP NationalismFar-right 2014
Green PartyYeşiller Partisi - Emine Özkan (female spokesperson)
Koray Doğan Urbarlı (male spokesperson)		Green liberal2020
Green Left PartyYeşil Sol Parti - Eylem Tuncaelli, Naci SönmezGreen politicsLeft-wing2012
Women's PartyKadın Partisi - Fatma Benal Yazgan FeminismLeft 2014
Centre PartyMerkez Parti - Centre2014
Young PartyGenç Parti GP Hakan UzanCentre2002
Future PartyGelecek Partisi - Ahmet DavutoğluRight2019
New Welfare PartyYeniden Refah Partisi - Fatih ErbakanMilli GörüşFar-right [5]2018

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.[6]

Party Name Turkish name Abbr. Ideology Position
Socialist AlternativeSosyalist Alternatif SA Marxist, Trotskyist, Committee for a Workers InternationalLeft-wing
People's Communist Party of TurkeyHalkın Türkiye Komünist Partisi HTKP Left-wing
Socialist Democracy PartySosyalist Demokrasi Partisi SDP Left-wing
Participatory Democracy PartyKatılımcı Demokrasi Partisi KADEP Kurdish nationalism
Democracy Party of Turkey & KurdistanTürkiye Kürdistan Demokrasi Partisi T-KDP Kurdish nationalism
Alternative and Change PartyAlternatif ve Değişim Partisi AL PARTİ Conservative
Nation and Justice PartyMillet ve Adalet Partisi MİLAD Conservative
People's Ascent PartyHalkın Yükselişi Partisi HYP Liberal
Turkey's Change MovementTürkiye Değişim Hareketi TDH Liberal
Social Reconciliation Reform and Development PartyToplumsal Uzlaşma Reform ve Kalkınma Partisi TURK-P Nationalism
Independent Republic PartyBağımsız Cumhuriyet Partisi BCP Nationalism
Rights and Equality PartyHak ve Eşitlik Partisi HEPAR Nationalism
Electronic Democracy PartyElektronik Demokrasi Partisi e-Parti Centre

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 coups.

Banned parties

These are some of the parties that were banned through extraordinary courts or the Constitutional Court of Turkey.

See also

References
  1. Cook, Steven A. (2012). "Recent History: The Rise of the Justice and Development Party". U.S.-Turkey Relations: A New Partnership to: 52.
  2. "The Islamic reconquest of Erdogan".
  3. Party Program of DEVA https://devapartisi.org/temel-metinler/parti-programi. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://wms.flexious.be/editor/plugins/imagemanager/content/2140/PDF/2020/Turkey_political_parties.pdf
  5. "Erbakan supports the marriage of 15 years old children".
  6. "Faaliyette Olan Siyasi Partiler" (PDF). The Supreme Court of Appeal. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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