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	Democratic Left Party (Turkey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The social democratic oriented party was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, spouse of Bülent Ecevit as he was banned from political life after the military coup of 1980.
		Boosted by the capture of the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party militant organization, Abdullah Öcalan, during his premiership, DSP won 22,19% of the votes in the elections of April in 1999 and took 136 of the 550 seats in the Turkish Parliament becoming a major party.
		At the 6th extraordinary party convention on July 25, 2004, Zeki Sezer was elected as the new leader of the party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Left_Party_(Turkey) (649 words)

	Political parties in Turkey - All About Turkey
		DSP (The Democratic Left party) : founded in 1985 by Rahsan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit (while he was banned from political life after the military coup of 1980), this centre-left party has been led between 1987-2006 by Bülent Ecevit.
		It was a minority party until it won 76 parliamentary seats in the December 1995 general elections.
		Erbakan fell apart under pressure of the military and the party was banned in January 1998 by the Constitutional Court.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /parti.htm (1710 words)

	Turkey
		The party led by the leader and the hero of the Turkish War of Independence stood for modernizing and westernizing reforms in the political, judicial and educational fields.
		Turkey participated in the Korean War, became a member of NATO in 1952 and foreign capital investments and petroleum explorations by foreigners were encouraged during the DP period.
		In the general congress of the party, which was held in 1972, Ecevit and his colleagues attained the absolute majority of the seats on the Central Executive Board, whereupon, İnönü resigned from the Chairmanship, from the Parliament and from the party membership.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/history_turkey/turkey.htm (6572 words)

	JURIST - Turkey: Turkish Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
		Turkey is a constitutional republic with a multiparty Parliament, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, which elects the President.
		To participate in the distribution of seats, a party must obtain at least 10% of the votes cast at the national level as well as a percentage of votes in the contested district according to a complex formula.
		Law in Turkey is a four-year undergraduate degree, and applicants are chosen according to points received in a highly competitive centralized university exam administered each year in late May or early June.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/turkey.htm (1335 words)

	"Turkey's Justice and Development Party: A Model for Democratic Islam?" (June/July 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With a genealogy that clearly places it in the tradition of Turkey's Islamist political trend, the rise of the AKP was at first greeted with trepidation by the country's Kemalist military and political elite.
		During the early 1990s, the party became the breeding ground for a new generation of competent and pragmatic activists and began to make inroads into territory traditionally held by the Turkish left, such as the urban lower class.
		Turkey, a country of about 70 million Muslims, most of whom are religious, is ruled today by a conservative party with an Islamic pedigree and a humane, tolerant, and democratic track record.
	www.meib.org /articles/0407_t1.htm (3202 words)

	Turkey - Democratic Left Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Democratic Left Party, known by the Turkish acronym DSP (for Demokratik Sol Partisi), was the smallest parliamentary party in January 1995.
		Because the party received almost 11 percent of the vote in the 1991 elections, DSP leader Bülent Ecevit and six other party officials took seats in the National Assembly.
		When the DSP was founded in November 1985--with Ecevit's wife serving as chair because he remained barred from political activity--Ecevit made known his low opinion of the SHP, which also presented itself as the heir to the CHP, and its leader, Erdal Inönü.
	countrystudies.us /turkey/84.htm (180 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Turkey's old guard routed in elections
		Turkey is hoping to be given a firm date in December for the start of talks on EU membership - although correspondents say that is far from certain.
		Turkey's outgoing Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit accepted defeat, after none of the three ruling coalition parties managed to cross the 10% threshold.
		Turkey's financial markets welcomed the AK victory, with stocks surging and the currency recovering about 1% against the dollar compared with Friday's rate.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2392717.stm (718 words)

	Commanding Heights : Turkey Overview \| on PBS
		In Europe, the latter is reduced to Turkey, comprising Eastern Thrace and Istanbul.
		Turkey, saddled with Ottoman debt and seeking to avoid dependence on the West, refuses foreign loans.
		Former prime minister Ecevit heads a coalition of the Democratic Left Party (DSP), the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and the ANAP.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/tr/tr_overview.html (1518 words)

	THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT IN TURKEY
		Consequently, Erbakan was banned from politics and the Welfare Party was outlawed in January 1998 by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that it violated the principles of secularism and the law of the political parties.
		A new party, the Virtue Party (FP), was founded by 33 former RP deputies under the leadership of Recai Kutan on December 17, 1997.
		Their resignation was interpreted as a move to form a new party given the fact that the Constitutional Court opened a closure case against the Virtue Party after the April 18, 1999 elections on the charges that the party was carrying out anti-secular activities and was the sucessor of the RP.
	www.biu.ac.il /SOC/besa/meria/journal/1999/issue3/jv3n3a4.html (5606 words)

	TURKEY, ARMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
		Turkey's chief prosecutor is now seeking to close the Virtue party after a newly elected female Virtue parliamentarian insisted on wearing a head scarf inside parliament chambers.
		Turkey's renewed faith in the ability to win the war probably encourages the military to continue using indiscriminate and disproportionate force, though Turkish authorities have prevented U.S. officials and international human rights groups from monitoring their activities in the region.
		Turkey has often threatened force against Greece and Cyprus, most recently in response both to Greece's role in harboring PKK leader Ocalan and to the Greek Cypriot government's planned purchase of Russian S-300 air-defense missiles.
	www.lightparty.com /Politics/ForeignPolicy/TurkeyArmsHumanRights.html (2417 words)

	CNN.com - Ecevit vows to remain in control - July 12, 2002
		His resignation from Ecevit's Democratic Left party was the latest in a wave of mass defections from the coalition government.
		Kemal Dervis is Turkey's economy minister and the man responsible for the country's economic recovery programme.
		The exodus from Ecevit was spurred in part by calls for early elections by Devlet Bahceli, the nationalist leader whose party is one of the three in the coalition government.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/12/turkey.elex (435 words)

	TURKEY’S ELECTION AND NEW GOVERNMENT
		Although it is a secular party-and somewhat incongruously, given its glorification of myths about the pre-Islamic origins of the Turks--the NAP has long emphasized that Islam is a natural part of Turkish national identity.
		The four mainstream parties-the DLP and RPP on the center-left and Yilmaz's Motherland and Ciller's TPP on the center-right-appear to have polled a total of only 56 percent, suggesting that there may no longer be a "mainstream" in Turkish politics.
		Holding 63% of the seats in parliament, the coalition is Turkey's strongest since Turgut Ozal's second term as prime minister in 1987, when ANAP alone governed with 64% of the seats (in a smaller parliament).
	www.biu.ac.il /soc/besa/meria/research-g/turkey-elections.html (2388 words)

	CNN.com - Turkey's economy minister resigns - August 10, 2002
		More than 50 members of Turkey's parliament and Cabinet members of Ecevit's Democratic Left party have resigned in recent months, in part because of the 77-year-old premier's refusal to leave the prime minister's post despite suffering from a number of ailments over recent months.
		Political uncertainty is threatening economic and political stability in Turkey, which is trying to join the European Union and is a key NATO member.
		Turkey is the International Monetary Fund's largest borrower with a total of $31 billion in loans.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/10/turkey.dervis (708 words)

	'Rightist' fight on the left - Turkish Daily News Jun 04, 2006
		On Feb. 18, 1995 the SHP and the CHP united, and Hikmet Çetin was unanimously elected chairman of the new party.
		Baykal this time introduced the notion of the “Anatolian left.” In the 1999 elections, Baykal's CHP had failed to pass the election threshold, while the rival Democratic Left Party (DSP) of Bülent Ecevit had garnered 21 percent of the vote.
		The majority of the party gave support to CHP leader Baykal, while opponents accused Baykal of “ideological deviation” or “identity crisis.” Moderate ones have taken it merely as an attempt to win votes from the electorate in the right.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=45274 (1418 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Nationalists question Turkey's EU bid
		Turkey's nationalist party, which scored a huge success in Sunday's general election and is considered a likely partner in a future coalition government says it wants to reconsider Turkey's attempt to join the European Union.
		MHP leader Devlet Bahceli told Turkish newspapers his party felt there was "a serious need for reassessment" of Turkey's relations with the EU and its reasons for joining the union.
		Analysts consider the most that the two parties together with the centre-right Motherland Party, which won 13% of the vote, are the most likely to form a workable coalition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/325138.stm (472 words)

	CNN - Ecevit's center-left party leads Turkish elections - April 18, 1999
		ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) -- Prime Minister Democratic Left Party was leading Sunday in Turkish national elections, but an ultra-right nationalist group was making remarkable gains over its 1995 showing.
		With 35 percent of the vote counted, Ecevit's secular Democratic Left Party had 23 percent of the vote.
		Because of Turkey's proportional representation system that favors rural areas, Ecevit is likely to need two coalition partners to form his new government.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9904/18/turkey.elex.02/index.html (544 words)

	CHP party of old regime/
		After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power.
		Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians.
		One of the successors of this party is the moderate islamic reformist Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) of Reçep Tayyıp Erdogan.
	homepages.udayton.edu /~aherndaw/turkpartys.htm (1254 words)

	CNN.com - Turkey agrees early election date - July 30, 2002
		Last weekend, Ecevit met the board of his Democratic Left Party, which then announced they would like the elections to be delayed until as late as 2004 -- when elections must be held anyway.
		A recently formed party, "New Turkey," led by the former Foreign Minister Ismail Cem will pose a challenge to Ecevit's Democratic Left party.
		Voters have shown signs of turning towards a pro-Islamic party, Justice and Development, whose leader, former Istanbul mayor Recip Tayyip Erdogan, was once jailed for inciting religious hatred and who is currently serving a political ban.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/30/turkey.elex/index.html?related (490 words)

	Green Left - TURKEY: Censorship, repression rob Kurds of representation
		DEHAP was sixth highest vote-getter of the 19 parties that contested the election.
		In an election campaign in which even the winning parties were rarely able to summon more than 10,000 people to their rallies, DEHAP stunned the country in the final week of the election campaign by mobilising almost one million people across the country.
		The ultra-nationalist Nationalist Action Party (MHP) slumped to 8.36% of the national vote (down from 18% in 1999), the Motherland Party (ANAP) received 5.13% of the vote (down from 13.2%) and Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit's misnamed Democratic Left Party received a humiliating 1.23% (down from 22%).
	www.greenleft.org.au /2002/516/27171 (781 words)

	Party of the Democratic Left - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic Left Party (Spanish [Partido Izquierda Democrática], ID) is a social-democrat party in Ecuador.
		At the legislative elections, held on 20 October 2002, the party won at least 13 out of 100 seats.
		The party won 13 seats in Congress again, while its presidential ticket came in fourth place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Party_of_the_Democratic_Left (214 words)

	Green Left - TURKEY: Pro-Kurdish party leaders charged
		The alleged crimes are of “praising and aiding” the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) through public statements and in DTP leaflets.
		In another case, Mahmut Almak, the DTP head in the north-eastern city of Kars, is facing a lengthy sentence for a speech he gave at a recent conference.
		Commenting on the struggle for democratic rights and Kurdish autonomy, Almak argued that a successful and democratic resolution of the ongoing conflict will not come about through the existing officialdom of the Turkish state.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2006/675/6207 (610 words)

	The Democratic Party
		Democrats as bipartisans gave the President the benefit of the doubt by joining with Republicans to support the President.
		Democrats who supported the war (not all did) were under the faulty intelligence that they received from the president.
		Democrats were not playing politics with Iraq, they were merely stating the truth and attacking the liars.
	www.democrats.org /a/2005/07/s_stands_for_se.php (13930 words)

	Iraq colors Kurdish campaign in Turkey's national election \| csmonitor.com
		ISTANBUL, TURKEY – On the eve of Turkish elections, thousands of Kurds throng a working class neighborhood of this city to cheer on their favorite political party.
		He thinks that the party's success in attracting more voters comes from merging with smaller left-wing Turkish parties to show that the party's ultimate goal is getting Kurds and Turks to work together.
		Turkey is afraid that if a war against Iraq begins, they will try to blend in with the expected flood of refugees into Turkey.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1101/p07s01-wosc.html (1152 words)

	Bush has eyes on Iraqi oil: Baghdad -DAWN - International; September 8, 2002
		Sahaf, also minister of culture, is in Amman to attend the opening of the Iraqi Cultural Week in the Jordanian capital.
		NATO member Turkey allows U.S. and British planes to use an airbase to patrol a no-fly zone over northern Iraq and Washington is expected to seek more support if it goes ahead with threats to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
		“Turkey is the country most closely interested in the Iraqi issue.
	www.dawn.com /2002/09/08/int1.htm (590 words)

	Leftist Parties of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Democratic Party of the Peoples of Europe - European Free Alliance
		This page contains the entire spectrum of political parties, organizations and groups which consider themselves to be leftist or have origins in leftist movements.
		is an e-mail group about the history and the present state of leftist parties and groups.
	www.broadleft.org /westeuro.htm (78 words)

	Social Democratic Parties of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Social Democratic Party of Switzerland / Socialist Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz / Parti Socialiste Suisse / Partito Socialista Svizzero, SP/PS), associated to PES
		African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC)
		Left Union of the III Republic of Poland (Unia Lewicy III Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej)
	www.broadleft.org /socdem.htm (524 words)

	Democratic Left Party (Turkey) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The flag of the Democratic Left Party (DSP) is blue with a white dove representing peace, and DSP letters in red.
		The image above was redrawn based on an image found on the party website.
		Blue is traditionally associated with Ecevit's followers and together with white belongs to the Trade Union Confederation Türkë.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/tr}dsp.html (100 words)

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