Party of Greens and the Left Future ( tr, Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi, YSGP), abbreviated as Green Left Party ( tr, Yeşil Sol Parti, YSP), is a

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and left-libertarian party in

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History

The first YSP was founded on 25 November 2012 as a merger of the Greens Party and 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 ...

. The party changed its name in April 2016. Prominent members include

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, left-wing political author and former columnist for ''

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''; Kutluğ Ataman, filmmaker and contemporary artist; and

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, former

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deputy and president of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP). The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK), a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012. Their chairpersons were temporarily arrested in February 2018 but released with a travel ban for the exterior and under monitoring of the police. They were charged over social media activity and books in their possession. In the 2023 parliamentary election, members of the HDK most famously the HDP ran on the YSP list because of the threat of a ban. YSP was transformed into the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party on 15 October 2023 and a new YSP was founded in November of the same year.

Political positions

The party supports

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and advocates for significantly shifting central powers to local governments. The party has formally acknowledged the

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References

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