Communal Liberation Party New Forces ( tr, Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi Yeni Güçler, TKP-YG) is a
centre-left political party in
Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the Geography of Cyprus, isl ...
. It is led by
Mehmet Çakıcı
Mehmet Çakıcı (born 13 September 1966) is a Turkish Cypriot politician and psychiatrist. He served as the first leader of the Communal Democracy Party (TDP) between 2007 and 2013 and has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 200 ...
. It was founded in 2016 after a group headed by Çakıcı broke off from the
Communal Democracy Party (TDP).
Çakıcı and former MP
Mustafa Emiroğluları resigned from the TDP on 25 November 2016. This was followed by the resignation of 70 other members of the TDP, mostly originating from the historical
Communal Liberation Party (TKP), on 28 November 2016. The rationale given for these resignations was what they saw as "undemocratic" policies employed by the TDP leadership under
Cemal Özyiğit and "the restriction of the freedom of speech within the party" after an election for the head of the
. This had culminated in disciplinary action against Emiroğluları, with the aim of expelling him from the party. Çakıcı and his fellows claimed that this was because Emiroğluları wanted to change the name of the TDP back to "Communal Liberation Party" and also claimed that no new memberships had been allowed in the party for 6 months. Özyiğit had countered these by saying that "he was not concerned by personal business of this sort".
Çakıcı founded the party using the name "Communal Liberation Party" (TKP) on 28 November 2016.
In January 2017,
Sonay Adem
Sonay Adem (1957, Paphos-29 October 2018) was a Turkish Cypriot politician. He served as the Minister for Labor and Social Security in the Cabinet of Northern Cyprus under Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer. He was confirmed in his office (in the 2 ...
,
Ali Gulle
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
and İbrahim Korhan, a group of political figures from
Gazimağusa District
Gazimağusa District ( el, Επαρχία Γκαζιμαγούσα or Επαρχία Αμμοχώστου) is a district of the de facto state of Northern Cyprus It is divided into three sub-districts: Mağusa Sub-district, Akdoğan Sub-district a ...
, resigned from the
Republican Turkish Party and joined the TKP. In the meanwhile, the High Administrative Court ruled that the establishment of a new party under the name "Communal Liberation Party" should be suspended. As a result of this and an agreement with the new members, the party changed its name to "Communal Liberation Party New Forces" on 19 January.
On 13 March 2017, the
Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
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merged into the TKP-YG.
On 26 October 2017, it agreed with the
United Cyprus Party to contest the election together under the TKP-YG list. This alliance was named the "Change and Liberation Alliance".
The party's newspapers are ''
Ortam
''Ortam'' (Turkish: ''Setting'') was a weekly political magazine in Istanbul, Turkey, between April and November 1971. Founded immediately after the military coup on 12 March 1971 the magazine was one of the oppositional publications in the count ...
'', which used to be the TDP's newspaper but had Çakıcı as its majority shareholder, and ''
Haberatör''.
References
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