Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
is a
presidential republic
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation ...
with a
multi-party system
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in ...
. Major parties are defined as political parties that received more than 7% of the votes in the latest general election and/or represented in parliament. Minor parties are defined as political parties that have fulfilled the requirements of the
Supreme Election Council (''Yüksek Seçim Kurulu'' in Turkish, abbreviated as YSK) and whose names have been listed on ballots. Forming a political party without prior permission is a
constitutional right
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, but the
Interior Ministry
An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs.
Lists of current ministries of internal affairs
Named "ministry"
* Ministr ...
may delay registering a new party for years, so the party cannot stand in elections.
If the ID and serial number of a person's
Turkish identity card is known anyone can query their political party membership via the website of the General Prosecution Office of the
Supreme Court of Appeal or mobile phone messages.
Political parties represented in the Turkish Parliament
General information about the parties holding seats in the
Grand National Assembly as of 2021:
The number of deputies required to form a political party group in the Turkish Parliament is 20.
Political parties with the same number of deputy members are listed alphabetically.
Other political parties
Other parties eligible to contest in elections
''(by january 2022)''
General information on other political parties registered in the Ministry of Interior:
Former
Inactive parties
The following parties are inactive, and they are not listed in the active political parties list by the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Defunct and historical parties
These are some of the parties that were dismantled because of their internal dynamics, mergers, inability to find electoral base or through governmental intervention, for instance following the
Turkish coups d'état.
Banned parties
These are some of the parties that were banned through extraordinary courts or the Constitutional Court of Turkey.
See also
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Politics of Turkey
The politics of Turkey take place in the framework of a constitutional republic and presidential system, with various levels and branches of power.
Turkey's political system is based on a separation of powers. Executive power is exercised b ...
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List of political parties by country
This is a list of ruling political parties by country, in the form of a table with a link to an overview of political parties in each country and showing which party system is dominant in each country. A political party is a political organizat ...
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Communist Party of Turkey (disambiguation)
Communist Party of Turkey or Turkish Communist Party may refer to:
* Communist Party (Turkey, 2014), 2014–2017
* Communist Party of Turkey (modern), founded as the Socialist Power Party in 1993
* Communist Party of Turkey (historical), 1920– ...
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List of illegal political parties in Turkey
Illegal political parties in Turkey lists those organisations founded in or carried out activities mainly targeted to Turkey that (a) consider themselves to be political parties as indicated in their self-assigned names, (b) are not or cannot be ...
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List of historical parties in Turkey
Below is the list of historical parties in Turkey. In this list, the parties that merged to create another party are also shown. Parties that were closed by the military rule in 1981 and continued with the same name afterwards are not shown.
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Turkish general elections before 1980
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Turkish general elections after 1980
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List of party leaders in Turkey
Below is the list of party leaders (former and present) in Turkey. Only the leaders of parties which were present in the parliament or received a considerable percentage of votes are shown.
The list
Key
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:TCF:
:SCF:
:MKP:
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References
External links
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