Socialist Revolution Party ( tr, Sosyalist Devrim Partisi) was a former political party in

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. The party was founded by

Mehmet Ali Aybar Mehmet Ali Aybar (; 5 October 1908 – 10 July 1995) was a lawyer, member of the Turkish parliament, the second president of the Workers Party of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye İşçi Partisi or briefly ''TİP''), the founder and President of the So ...

, the former chairman of

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(TIP). Aybar was a champion of a policy known as "smiling socialism" which was rejected among most of the other

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s. So in 1970, he lost his chair to

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. In 1971 TİP was banned by the

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after

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. Although TİP was reestablished, Aybar did not participate and he founded another party named the Socialist Party on 30 May 1975 which later on was renamed the Socialist Revolution Party (SDP). Among the 50 carter members some of the notable names were Cenan Bıçakçı, Uğur Cankoçak and Kemal Nebioğlu. In the 3rd art. of the party constitution it reads "People are not for socialism, but socialism is for people." The blue collar workers made up 2/3 of the party staff. No person was to be the chairperson of the party for more than one term. So Aybar left his seat to Cenan Bıçakçı, a former unionist.Cenan Bıçakçı essays
/ref> However in 1980 following

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, the party was closed by the military rule just like the other political parties. After the military term, Turkey returned to democracy, and the party was opened for the second time. In the elections, however, the party was unable to gain any seat in the parliament or in the local government and in 1995 it dissolved itself.

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