List of political parties in Turkey

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Turkey is a parliamentary 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 (22 July 2007) 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.

Parties represented in the current Parliament

Party			Ideology	Leader	MPs
	Justice and Development Party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi	AKP	Economic liberalism Conservatism	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	326
	Republican People's Party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi	CHP	Kemalism Social democracy Laicism	Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu	135
	Nationalist Movement Party Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi	MHP	Turkish nationalism Ülkücülük	Devlet Bahçeli	53
	Peace and Democracy Party Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi	BDP	Democratic socialism Kurdish minority interests	Selahattin Demirtaş	36

Minor parties and other Parties not represented in Parliament

• Communist Party of Turkey (Türkiye Komünist Partisi, TKP)
• Democratic Party (Demokrat Parti, DP)
• Democratic Left Party (Demokratik Sol Partisi, DSP)
• Democratic Left People's Party (Demokratik Sol Halk Partisi, DSHP)
• Equality and Democracy Party (Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, EDP)
• Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi, SP)
• Freedom and Solidarity Party (Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Partisi, ÖDP)
• Great Union Party (Büyük Birlik Partisi, BBP)
• Greens of Turkey (Yeşiller Partisi)
• Homeland Party (Yurt Partisi, YP)
• Independent Republic Party (Bağımsız Cumhuriyet Partisi, BCP)
• Independent Turkey Party (Bağımsız Türkiye Partisi, BTP)
• Labour Party (Emek Partisi, EMEP)
• Labourer Movement Party (Emekçi Hareket Partisi, EHP)
• Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Demokrat Parti, LDP)
• Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (Turkey) (Marksist-Leninist Komünist Partisi)
• Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP)
• Nation Party (Millet Partisi, MP)
• National Party (Ulusal Parti)
• New Party (Yeni Parti)
• People's Ascent Party (Halkın Yükselişi Partisi, HYP)
• People's Voice Party (Halkın Sesi Partisi, HAS PARTİ)
• Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi, DSİP)
• Revolutionary Workers' Party (Devrimci İşçi Partisi, DİP)
• Rights and Equality Party (Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi, HEPAR)
• Socialist Democratic Party (Toplumcu Demokratik Parti, TDP)
• Social Democratic People's Party (Sosyaldemokrat Halk Partisi, SHP)
• Socialist Democracy Party (Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi, SDP)
• Rights and Liberties Party (Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, HAKPAR)
• Turkey's Change Movement (Türkiye Değişim Hareketi, TDH)
• Turkey Party (Türkiye Partisi, TP)
• Workers' Party (İşçi Partisi, İP)
• Young Party (Genç Parti, GP)

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.

Left Wing

• New Turkey Party (Yeni Türkiye Partisi), joined CHP in 2004
• Social Democracy Party (SODEP) (Sosyal Demokrat Parti), merged with People's Party to form Social Democrat People's Party (SDHP) in 1985
• People's party (Halkçı Parti), merged with SODEP to form Social Democrat People's Party (SDHP) in 1985
• Social Democratic Populist Party (Sosyal Demokrat Halkçı Parti), joined CHP

Liberal

• Liberal Republican Party (Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası, dissolved itself) (1929)
• Liberty Party Joined to CHP
• New Democracy Movement (Yeni Demokrasi Hareketi)

Conservative, centre-right

• Justice Party (Adalet Partisi, AP) (1962) Closed on 12 September 1980
• Great Turkey Party (Büyük Türkiye Partisi) (1983)
• Democratic Party (Demokrat Parti, DP) (1946–1961)
• Nation Party (Millet Partisi, MP) (1948–1953 and 1962–1977)
• Democratic Party (1970–1980)
• Democratic Center Party (Demokratik Merkez Partisi, DMP) Founded on May 17, 1990, merged into DYP on September 14, 1991
• True Path Party (Doğru Yol Partisi), conservative (9.6 %) (1983), merged with Motherland Party into Democrat Party (Turkey, 2007) in 2007.
• New Turkey Party (1961) (1961–1973) Joined to Justice Party (no relation to above party with the same name)

Nationalist

• Republican Peasants and Nation Party (Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi), merger of two parties, replaced by MHP
• Nationalist Working Party (Milliyetçi Çalışma Partisi), replaced by MHP
• Nationalist Democracy Party (1983–1986)

Religious

• National Salvation Party (Milli Selâmet Partisi) Closed 12 September 1980
• National Development Party (Milli Kalkınma Partisi)

Separatist

• Peace and Democracy Party (Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi)

Banned parties

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

Left-wing

• Workers Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi), banned in 1971, represented in the national senate in early 1960s.
• United Communist Party of Turkey (Türkiye Birleşik Komünist Partisi)

Religious

• Progressive Republican Party (Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası), banned at 3 June 1925
• National Order Party (Milli Nizam Partisi), banned at 20 May 1971
• Welfare Party (Refah Partisi), banned at 22 February 1998
• Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi), banned at 22 June 2001

Kurdish Separatist

• People's Labor Party (Halkın Emek Partisi), banned in July 1993
• Democracy Party (Demokrasi Partisi), banned on 16 June 1994
• People’s Democracy Party (Halkın Demokrasi Partisi), banned on 13 March 2003
• Democratic Society Party (Demokratik ve Toplum Partisi), banned on 11 December 2009

See also

• Politics of Turkey
• List of political parties by country
• Communist Party of Turkey for a list of communist parties in Turkey
• List of illegal political parties in Turkey
• Turkish general elections before 1980
• Turkish general elections after 1980