The Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace (, abbr. Κ.Ι.Ε.Φ., KIEF; , DEBP) is a

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founded to represent the interests of

Turks of Western Thrace Turks of Western Thrace (; ) are ethnic Turks who live in Western Thrace, in the province of East Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece. According to the Greek census of 1991, there were approximately 50,000 of Turkish origin in Western Th ...

Overview

The party was created on 13 September 1991 by Sadik Achmet, who presided over it until his death in 1995. Achmet was succeeded by his widow Isik Achmet (Işık Ahmet) who led until 1999. The party was then led by Achmet Chatziosman until 2007 when Chatziosman was elected member of the

Greek Parliament The Parliament of the Hellenes (), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (), is the unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens. The parliament is the supreme democratic instit ...

for the

Panhellenic Socialist Movement The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was one of the two major parties in the country, along with New Democracy, its main political r ...

(PASOK). The next chairman, Moustafa Bosnak, was replaced in July 2010 by Moustafa Ali Tsavous. Achmet Chatziosman was elected in 2002 and 2006 for the

Rhodope Prefecture Rhodope (, ''Rodópi'' ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its name is derived from the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the northern part of its territory. Togeth ...

on a common PASOK-

Synaspismós The Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (, ''Synaspismós tīs Aristerás tōn Kinīmátōn kai tīs Oikologías''), commonly known as Synaspismos (, ''Synaspismós'', "Coalition") and abbreviated to SYN (ΣΥΝ), was a Greek politica ...

list and was vice-prefect from 2002 to 2007. The 5th Ordinary General Congress of the party took place on 5 January 2019 at the Party Headquarters. Tsidem Asafoglou, the only candidate in the congress that took place in the party's headquarters, was elected as the new party president. For the 2024 European elections, the party has one candidate representing the

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minority in Greece, Eugenia Natsoulidou.

Notable members

* Sadik Achmet * Xasan Patsaman * Ismail Molla * Achmet Faikoglou * Achmet Chatziosman * Tsetin Mantatzi *

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Electoral results

Hellenic Parliament

European Parliament

Although unable to send MEPs due to 3% national threshold, DEB emerged as the first party in

Xanthi Xanthi is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi regional unit of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope mountain chain, the city is divided ...

and

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regional units in both 2014 and 2019 European elections, drawing attention. In 2019 elections, DEB received 38% of the votes in Rhodope regional unit and 25.24% of the votes in Xanthi regional unit. DEB also received 1.30% of the votes in Evros regional unit. While in the overall region of

Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ( ; , ) is one of the thirteen Regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the northeastern parts of the country, comprising the eastern part of the Geographic regions of Greece, region of ...

, the party came in as the 3rd biggest party after top 2 national parties

New Democracy New Democracy, or the New Democratic Revolution, is a type of democracy in Marxism, based on Mao Zedong's Bloc of Four Social Classes theory in post-revolutionary China which argued originally that democracy in China would take a path that w ...

and

Syriza The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance (), best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA ( ; ; a pun on the Greek adverb , meaning "from the roots" or "radically"), is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politi ...

. Other regions outside Eastern Macedonia and Thrace where votes were cast for DEB were listed as

Dodecanese The Dodecanese (, ; , ''Dodekánisa'' , ) are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. This island group generally define ...

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

, and

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Other Turkish minority parties in South-Eastern Europe

Movement for Rights and Freedoms The Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( ''Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi'', ДПС, DPS; , HÖH) is a political party in Bulgaria with a support base among ethnic minority communities. Until 2024 it was a member of the Liberal International and ...

(

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) *

Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo The Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo (, ) is a political party in Kosovo that represents the Turkish minority. It is led by Mahir Yağcılar, the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning in the Thaçi-led government. It was founded as ...

(

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) *

Democratic Party of Turks The Democratic Party of Turks of Macedonia (, ''Demokratska partija na Turcite na Makedonija''; ) is a political party of the Turks in North Macedonia, Turkish minority in North Macedonia. In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the party joined the ...

(

Republic of North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

) * Democratic Turkish Union of Romania (

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)

References

External links

* {{Greece-party-stub Political parties of minorities in Greece Turkish political parties Political parties established in 1991 1991 establishments in Greece Turks in Greece