The Victory Party ( tr, Zafer Partisi, ZP) is a

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and

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political party in

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founded on August 26, 2021 under the leadership of

Ümit Özdağ Ümit Özdağ (born 3 March 1961) is a Turkish politician and current Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He was deputy leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) from November 2015 to February 2016. He announced his candidacy ...

. It is represented in the

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by a single MP, Özdağ himself. The Victory Party is the continuation of the ''Ayyıldız Movement'' initiated by Ümit Özdağ, which became a youth movement after the establishment of the party. The founding petition of the party was submitted to the

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on 26 August 2021 and then the party was officially established.

History

It was founded by Ümit Özdağ, due to his many disagreements with other Turkish parties, including corruption allegaions against other parties, the general and demographic effects of the ruling AKP's refugee policies (which the Victory Paty calls "strategic immigration engineering"), the anti-democratic approaches by the IYI Party, and his feuds with the MHP and the modern CHP. In Özdağ's words, it was organized under the name of Ayyıldız Movement with the aim of "forming the motto of

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along the lines of Atatürk" and submitted its founding petition to the

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on August 26, 2021, when it was officially established. The party leader Ümit Özdağ declared

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as the favorite candidate of the people "based on many contacts they made" and "called him for the duty" for 2023 presidential elections, although Yavaş is a member of the CHP. Yavaş stated the declaration was without his knowledge and consent, declaring not as a candidate for presidency. Ümit Özdağ confirmed that his statement was not with the consent of Mayor of Ankara, claiming 'It would be a plot if we informed Mansur Yavaş' (against the other opposition parties).

Controversies

Suleyman Soylu and Umit Ozdag

On May 5, 2022, Ümit Özdağ made a press statement against the Interior Minister

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, who criticized him heavily in a television program, and stated that he would be in front of the Ministry of Interior building at 11:00 the next day and that he was waiting for Süleyman Soylu. Özdağ and the crowd went to the Ministry of Interior the next day, but were blocked by the police. The statements made by Özdağ in front of the Ministry and the statements he made to Soylu increased the visibility of the Zafer Party in the media. On September 13, 2022, a banner with the inscription "domestic and national escobar" on the Victory Party's

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District Directorate building and a bald and halfless head image below was hung. The Prosecutor's Office removed this banner, stating that it "insulted a public official". It was not disclosed which public official was insulting.

Leadership

These are the board members of Victory Party:

References

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