New Party (Turkey, 1993)
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New Party ( tr, Yeni Parti) was a former
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political party. After
Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...
was elected as the
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, he resigned from the Motherland Party (ANAP) because of constitutional reasons. On 30 November 1992, he was replaced by
Mesut Yılmaz Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz () (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party ( tr, Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two p ...
. Next day, Yusuf Bozkurt Özal, Turgut Özal's younger brother, together with a group of deputies resigned from ANAP. On 7 October 1993, Yusuf Bozkurt Özal founded the New Party. However, in the
general elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
held on 24 December 1995, the party could receive only 0.13% of votes. After this defeat, the party was merged to another party in 1997 November.Kefline page
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