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, website
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Greens' Party ( tr, Yeşiller Partisi also ''Yeşiller'' for short) is a

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Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

founded in 2020. The

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blocked the party from standing in the

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History

Greens Party ( tr, Yeşiller Partisi) (website yesiller.org) was a green liberal

in Turkey. Being the 57th political party of Turkey, it was established on 30 June 2008 after years of preparation since 2002. A green party with the same name was established prior to its establishment in 1988 (its founding President was former Health Minister Celal Ertuğ (in Turkish)). The latter was closed down in 1994, and its third and last President was Aydın Ayas, who took the eco-liberal turn for the party. Greens maintained local branches and initiatives in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

Bursa ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

, Tekirdağ, and

Antalya Antalya () is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, fifth-most populous city in Turkey as well as the capital of Antalya Province. Located on Anatolia's southwest coast bordered by the Taurus Mountains, Antalya is the largest Turkish cit ...

. Greens were known as the ''Greens of Turkey'' ( tr, Türkiye'nin Yeşilleri, Yeşiller Partisi) prior to the founding of the party. The party held its first general congress on 6 June 2010. In November 2012, it merged with the

Equality and Democracy Party Equality and Democracy Party (''Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi'', EDP) was a left-libertarian and social liberal political party in Turkey. It was founded on 14 March 2010 by . Halis, of Alevi descent, was a former MP for the Social Democratic P ...

to form the

Greens and the Left Party of the Future Green Left Party ( tr, Yeşil Sol Parti) is a left-libertarian and Green politics, green party in Turkey. It was founded on 25 November 2012 with the name Party of Greens and the Left Future ( tr, Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi) as a merger of ...

, YSGP for short. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices. After the splitting
Yeşil Siyaset Meclisi
was founded with the idea of founding a green party again one day. After 4 years of preparation, Yeşiller Partisi was founded on 21 September 2020 again with 110 founding members whom 55 of them are women and 55 of them are men. In 2020 the Greens submitted documents to the

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to register their status as a political party, so their name could be written on ballot papers. In 2021 the Greens filed a lawsuit against the ministry over the delay in providing the receipt stipulated in the Political Parties Law. In February 2023 the Ankara 8th Administrative Court ruled that the Interior Ministry must issue the receipt.' The party endorsed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for the

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. For the

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, on the other hand, the party established an electoral alliance with the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP), and its spokerpersons, Özlem Taşdemir Teke and Koray Doğan Urbarlı, decided to run as candidates on TİP's lists.

Party programme

* Carbon-free economy: Greens say that fossil fuel dependency is the main cause of the

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that has shaken political and social structures, and economic dynamics around the world; and of

climate change in Turkey Climate change in Turkey includes changes in the climate of Turkey, their effects and how the country is adapting to those changes. Turkey's annual and maximum temperatures are rising, and 2020 was the third hottest year on record. Turkey wil ...

. They aim to stop all fossil fuel use by 2050 and reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions to

net zero Carbon neutrality is a state of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. This can be achieved by balancing emissions of carbon dioxide with its removal (often through carbon offsetting) or by eliminating emissions from society (the transition to the " ...

. In order to achieve this Greens encourage responsible use of the nation's solar energy and

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and phasing out the use of coal in Turkey. * Green New Deal: Greens aim for a total transformation of the economy of Turkey by supporting the nation's energy and

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infrastructure change, energy efficiency, creating good jobs, increasing the quality of life, cooperatives, sustainable

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, small scale

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, care services, alternative and informal jobs. * Water as a right for all: Greens say that water is a commons that belongs to all humans, other living beings and future generations. Greens will develop policies that will repair the broken hydrological cycle and foster water conservation in agricultural, domestic and industrial domains. * Good, Clean, Healthy Food for All: Greens will ban pesticides which put the country's biodiversity, natural resources, human and animal lives at risk. We will create a support system to prevent the farmers dependency on companies and pesticides. We will prevent the depletion of natural resources, soil degradation, deforestation and

desertification Desertification is a type of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid. It is the spread of arid areas caused by ...

through holistic, restorative and sustainable agricultural practices. * Gender and Sexuality: Greens say that gender and sexuality in the country is an area of rights, equality and freedom and set out to displace the patriarchal ideology and make structural and relational change in order to achieve liberation for all individuals, women, men and LGBTQI+ through equal citizenship.

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History

Party programme

See also

References