Politics in Turkey

❁ Assalamualaikum ❁

☞ Hello everyone! How's your day? I hope you're feeling well and you're surrounded by positive people and amazing people always. That is the thing that you should be thank for. There's nothing can beat the gift you get from Allah. Good people, food, shelter and your complete sense. Okay, that was just an introduction. Haha. I am feeling like wanted to pour some nice advices for you so that you'll be more relax. Yeah, who knows. You might be having a bad day today but there's many thing that can cover up your sadness, just be thankful. Okay? Okay. 

☞ Well, the purpose of I'm writing this entry is... (look up on the title above). Haha. Yeah we are going to talk about politics! So dear politicians, please clear up your mind and be an open-minded. I won't touch on any sensitive issues, it will be just a simple introduction of politics in Turkey, so that you have the view on how the government in that country works. 

☞ Dear people, in this modern era, we are living in a society where people are able to voice out their thoughts and opinions on anything that they want. They even can choose the ideal leader that they prefer and the election's result is basically based on the majority choice in any particular country. This is because every single individual can make their ideas known to the community. Well, as we already known, literally people who have similar views, opinions, thoughts and ideas tend to form groups together. Moreover, this kind of groups or we can called them parties are a crucial part of the political system in the country. Why groups or parties are important? It is because an individual alone cannot really change anything. He can say what he wants, voice out his opinions and ideas, yet if he is alone, it is difficult for him to make any changes. But, sometimes an idea or demonstration performed by an individual has the chance to have attention, yet it usually takes a group to be noticed. Furthermore, groups are much better because the larger the groups, the brighter the opportunities for them to be noticed by the government, thus this can cause changes.

☞ One of the ways of these groups or parties is they are able to find as many people as they could who share thoughts and opinions that they are as a majority strongly feel about one, two or more specific issue(s). Hence, the advantages of these large group literally leave an impact to the government as the government tend to consider the ideas brought by these groups as to gain the votes of those people in that party during the general election.

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☞ In my opinion, a stable political system in a country is vital as it influences the flow of the government's performance, thus affect the lives of the people. Moreover, the political parties play a major role as well in developing a better political system. It is because without political parties, the government would not be able to exist and form the society and a country.

☞ As for your general knowledge, The Republic of Turkey has functioned under a multi-party, which means that there are several parties under The Republic of Turkey that runs the government since 1945. Turkey democracy has experienced 3 military interventions, with the latest coup taking place in 1980 sweeping Suleyman Demirel who was later founded the DYP Party away from premiership. Next, in 1983, the military allowed Turkey to return to civilian power and elect Turgut Ozal, who was the leader of ANAP Party as Prime Minister.

☞ Current days ☜

2015 Election

The 62nd government has resigned after the elections of 7th of June 2015. Later, each party need to try to form the goverment with coalition these days as none of the political parties have won the majority of the seats during the previous election. However, if there is a deadlock, then there will be an early elections in Turkey. In addition, during the previous election, Justice and Development Party (AKP) got 258 seats in the Parliament. While Peoples Republican Party (CHP) got 132 seats, National Movement Party (MHP) got 80 seats followed by Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) got 80 seats.


Several main political parties in Turkey are:

DSP (The Democratic Left Party)

Founded in 1985 by Rahsan Ecevit, wife of Bulen Ecevit. This center-left party has been led between 1987-2006 by Bulent Ecevit. It was minorty party until it won 76 parliamentary seats in December 1995 general elections.

CHP (The Republican People's Party)

Created in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, is now led by Mr. Kemal Kilicdaroglu. It has been a stronger centre-left party since its fusion, in February 1995, with then the main left-wing party SHP. 

MHP (National Action Party)

This ultra-nationalist party, which also known as the Grey Wolves, from the name of its youth movement. It was founded in 1969 by the late Alparslan Turkes. Structured as a typically para-military organization, MHP was a large responsible for the escalation of violence in the late 70s. 

AKP (Justice and Development Party)

It was found in 2001 as a pro-Islamist party by Mr. Erdogan and Mr. Gul. AKP gained higher votes in both local and general elections and had surprised the other political parties. In 2002, they won 34.3% of the total votes and became the first party from the polls. Abdullah Gul as the first Premiere, later was Tayyip Erdogan after his political ban ended. 

FAZILET (The Virtue Party)

In April 1997, the coalition government led by Mr. Erbakan fell apart under pressure of the military and the party was banned in January 1998 by the Constitutional Court. The leader of Refah (Wellfare Party) immediately creates a new party: Fazilet, the Virtue Party. 

My fellow readers, that's all about the Turkey politics and I have given you the list of several main political parties in that country. I really hope that somehow this entry can gain your general knowledge and maybe could help you out in any task that you are assigned. As usual, if you have any comments, do place them in the comment box below. Thank you for reading! Till then, bye! ☺