The People's Voice Party ( Turkish ''Halkın Sesi Partisi'', abbreviated HSP but using the self-styled abbreviation ''HAS PARTİ'', which literally means "PURE PARTY") was a religious conservative political 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 ...

. It was founded on 1 November 2010 by

Numan Kurtulmuş Prof. Dr. Numan Kurtulmuş (born 23 March 1959) is a Turkish politician and academician, currently the deputy chairman of Justice and Development Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the 62nd, 63rd, 64th and 65th AKP governm ...

and dissolved on 19 September 2012. In September 2012, after less than two years, an extraordinary party congress decided to dissolve the party and join the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). In July 2012, following long-held speculation that

was on

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

Erdoğan’s mind as his possible successor as party head, Erdoğan personally proposed to Kurtulmuş the idea of merging the parties under the umbrella of the AKP.

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* Islamic political parties in Turkey Defunct conservative parties in Turkey Political parties established in 2010 2010 establishments in Turkey Political parties disestablished in 2012 2012 disestablishments in Turkey {{Turkey-party-stub