The Young Party (, GP) is a

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. The chairperson of GENÇPARTİ is Burçin Şahindur.

History

2002 elections

Cem Uzan Cem Cengiz Uzan (born 26 December 1960, Istanbul) is a Turkish businessman and politician involved in the media and banking industries, while also chairing the social liberal Young Party (GENÇPARTİ). His family's media empire ( Uzan Group) at ...

entered politics 90 days before the 2002 elections. Young Party was not eligible to enter the elections and Yeniden Doğuş Partisi (YDP) was a small party which was eligible to enter elections. So, money was poured by Uzan to take over YDP by delegate elections. In the

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on 3 November 2002, the party got 7.5% of the

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and no seats. It was considered as success for a political party to get 7.5% of the vote at the first election entered.

2007 elections

After the 2002 elections, TMSFSAVINGS DEPOSIT INSURANCE FUND; Turkish

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assumed ownership of Uzan's companies and later sold them. Some saw this as an attempt of the current parliament to stop Cem Uzan and his Young Party. Young Party only won 3.3% of the vote in

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and its candidates were not elected as members of the

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. Compared with the 2002 elections, this result means a loss of 4.22% of the public vote.

Media power of the party

was the owner of Star TV and Star newspaper and used his newspaper and TV station to the best of his ability to promote his party, which is why he has been labelled a Turkish version of

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. When he was under investigation, he used advertising space between the first and second halves of Champions League football games to launch political assaults upon his opponents. After his tough speech about current Prime Minister (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan), TMSF assumed ownership of his companies; the companies were later sold.

Some party members

Other than Cem Uzan,

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, parliament member Emin Şirin, former parliament member Adil Asirimand and some new politicians like Kaan Aytuğ, Cenk Aktan are some of the recognisable members of the Young Party.

Election results

General elections

References

External links

* *http://www.cenkuzan.tr.gg *http://www.cenkuzan.piczo.com *http://www.gencturkgucu.org *http://www.gencpartiankara.com 1992 establishments in Turkey 2002 establishments in Turkey Political parties established in 1992 Political parties established in 2002 Political parties in Turkey Populist parties {{Turkey-party-stub