The National Party ( tr, Ulusal Parti) is a

nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Th ...

party in

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 in ...

. The party was founded by Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu in 2010. This party's main idols are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,

Doğan Avcıoğlu Doğan Avcıoğlu (1926–1983) was a Turkish writer, journalist and politician. Biography Doğan Avcıoğlu was born in Mustafakemalpaşa ilçe (district) of Bursa Province in 1926. After completing high school, he traveled to France for studie ...

and Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev. Unlike other socialist parties in Turkey, they often criticise

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for being Eurocentrist. They describe Kemalism as

socialism Socialism is a left-wing Economic ideology, economic philosophy and Political movement, movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to Private prop ...

with Turkish characteristics. They also idolize socialist, third worldist and left-wing nationalist leaders like

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hugo Chávez, Josip Broz Tito and

Patrice Lumumba Patrice Émery Lumumba (; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June u ...

. This party supports Turkish nationalism against imperialism and separatism, socialism against

capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, priva ...

, and

secularism Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on secular, naturalistic considerations. Secularism is most commonly defined as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state, and may be broadened to a sim ...

against

fundamentalism Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguish ...

. Despite this party mainly supports

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and cultural kind of nationalism, they also have

Pan-Turkist Pan-Turkism is a political movement that emerged during the 1880s among Turkic intellectuals who lived in the Russian region of Kazan (Tatarstan), Caucasus (modern-day Azerbaijan) and the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey), with its aim bei ...

tendencies. They support an aggressive foreign policy against

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and

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. They are against any alliance with

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, the

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, China or

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. They are in favour of a Turkic union. They are often accused of being

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and racist in Kurdish issue, because of mottos like ''there is not a Kurdish problem but a Kurdish invasion'', ''I trade with Turks, therefore my money doesn't flow to the

PKK The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of sout ...

'', ''save your cities from invasion'' (of Kurds), etc. However Gökçe Fırat claims, Kurdish ethnicity and

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are artificial, which were created by imperialist powers, especially Tsarist Russia and

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. He's also said, ''for us, in Turkey there is only and one nation and it's Turkish nation. We don't recognise any other ethnic and national identities. That's why we don't discriminate anyone, we see every citizen as Turks''. The party publishes Türksolu and İleri.

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