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	European People's Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European People's Party is a Christian democrat-conservative political party at European level founded in 1976.
		In the European Parliament the EPP cooperates with the European Democrats faction in the EPP-ED Group.
		The European Democratic Students (EDS) is a group of student political parties associated with the EPP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Peoples_Party (350 words)

	Encyclopedia: Liberal Democratic Party
		There are however some Liberal Parties which are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
		The Liberal Democratic Party (Lithuanian: Liberalų Demokratų Partija) of Lithuania is a populist party led by Valentinas Mazuronis.
		The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an alliance for some years).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Democratic-Party (1254 words)

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		The existing political parties that emerged under the wings of the official ideology of the time were forced to accept the (anti-Kurdish) principles of the 1982 Constitution exactly as they had accepted the precepts of the previous constitutions.
		Political parties which missed this opportunity, the press which misinformed people, mass organizations that remained passive, and the intellectuals who shied away from their responsibility, all, share the blame for the current bloody confrontation and for the loss of life and property.
		The question of the democratization of Turkey and the Kurdish problem, which is an integral part of it, is not created by outside forces to destroy the unity of Turkey and is not an artificial problem, as some circles claim.
	www.kurdistan.org /Leyla/defense.html (7356 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Analysis: Turkey's Iraq troop decision
		The cost to the Kurds of eastern and south-eastern Turkey of the guerrilla campaign, and the scorched earth policy the army adopted in response, was very high - up to 4,000 villages razed to the ground, and several million people displaced.
		The semi-nomadic way of life of the people, who used to travel hundreds of kilometres each year with their flocks seeking pasture in the mountains, was destroyed.
		Inside Turkey, Kurdish interests are campaigned for by DEHAP - the Democratic Peoples' Party - which failed to win enough support to cross the 10% threshold to enter Parliament in last year's elections.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3268087.stm (995 words)

	Political parties and leaders. The World Factbook. 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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		Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV, chairman]; Islamic Revival Party [Said Abdullo NURI, chairman]; People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMONOV]; Social Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOIROV]; Socialist Party or SPT [Sherali KENJAYEV]; Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV]
	www.aol.bartleby.com /151/fields/54.html (4018 words)

	Turkey — the DEHAP alliance needs messages of support from abroad \| International Socialist Tendency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Because HADEP is on the verge of being banned by the courts, the election is being fought under the banner of DEHAP (The Democratic Peoples Party).
		He was to stand as a candidate from the Socialist Democracy Party on the DEHAP slate, but the Supreme Election Commission ruled that a conviction for a speech he had made meant that he was ineligible to stand.
		The only parties currently predicted to exceed 10% of the vote are the ”moderate” Islamist “White Party”, the CHP (peoples Republican party), whose star candidate is Kemal Dervis economy minister and ex vice president of the world bank, and possibly the extreme right populist “Youth Party” of billionaire businessman Cem Uzan.
	www.istendency.net /node/view/12 (713 words)

	"Turkey's Justice and Development Party: A Model for Democratic Islam?" (June/July 2004)
		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.
		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.
		Turkey is quite different from the rest of the Middle East, whether Arab or Persian.
	www.meib.org /articles/0407_t1.htm (3202 words)

	Article or Op-Ed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Growing up in Turkey, I was struck by a string of "realist" films in the 1970s that depicted the horrible conditions landless peasants endured under brutal landowners, known as agas.
		Today, support for the pro-PKK Democratic Peoples Party (DEHAP) is strongest in the aga-run villages of southeastern Turkey, and weaker in the region's towns.
		Meanwhile, the party's popularity barely crosses the one percent mark in large cities in Europeanized western Turkey, such as Istanbul and Izmir, where around half of the country's Kurds live.
	www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC06.php?CID=865 (906 words)

	[cssn] International solidarity conference in Australia 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		North and South people continue to rise up—against imperialist war, Third World debt, against the devastation of our environment, against the deepening exploitation of women, against the denial of national rights and the marginalisation of indigenous peoples, against rural poverty and landlessness.
		At times this issue appears disguised as a debate over the very right of socialist parties to be part of the united front of resistance and to put their viewpoint within the movement.
		However, if left parties are excluded, it’s practically impossible to lift the movement’s field of vision beyond demands on, and reforms to, capitalist states and institutions.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cssn/cssn-list/2001/10/00179.html (2868 words)

	Sharp rightward shift in the Turkish elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		It was also no surprise that the pro-Kurdish "Democratic Peoples Party" (HADEP) did not pass the 10 percent hurdle required to gain parliamentary representation, although they enjoyed broad support in the mainly Kurdish areas of southeast Turkey and won control of several city halls.
		The only established party with even a glimmer of a claim to be "left-wing", the social democratic "Republican Peoples Party" (CHP) of Deniz Baykals, is no longer represented in parliament.
		The CHP considers itself to be the direct successors to the party of Kemal Attaturk, the founder of modern Turkey, which ruled from 1923 to 1950.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/apr1999/turk-a23.shtml (1550 words)

	Azerbaijan Development Gateway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		There were only 22 political parties in Azerbaijan at the end of XIX and the beginning of XX century which stopped functioning after the 28th of April 1920.
		During the first Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from the 28th of May 1918 to the 28th of April 1920 the political parties were represented in the Parliament of the republic.
		The main peculiarity of all those parties was concentration of their members around some popular politicians and what is more, there were not clear differences in their programs and to bring happiness to people was their final aim.
	www.gateway.az /eng/country/politic.shtml (973 words)

	Turkey: new wave of repression against Kurds and Islamic forces
		The arrests, repressive measures and attacks on democratic rights are an expression of a deep crisis wracking the widely hated Turkish political establishment.
		Tayip Erdogan, the former mayor of Istanbul and a well-known functionary of the Virtue Party (FP—the largest opposition party in parliament), who is in jail at the moment for quoting a "subversive" poem, is once again to face trial together with 13 of his former colleagues.
		They advised the Kurdish people to remain loyal to their elected representatives and react democratically and peacefully when their leaders were arrested.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/turk-m13.shtml (1235 words)

	Discover Turkey: Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Peoples' Democratic Party (HADEP) said in a statement a Turkish military officer in Diyarbakir province had placed a food embargo on Benin village late last month, forcing residents to move elsewhere.
		Turkey says the migration is due to economic reasons alone and denies any persecution of its Kurds.
		Turkey's top human rights activist Akin Birdal on Tuesday accused authorities of causing a Kurdish migration crisis by using scorched-earth tactics against PKK guerrillas.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /hillcrest/603/Html_files/news41.htm (322 words)

	Turkey - Getting Around - DangerFinder
		DP has traveled extensively in southeastern Turkey, both alone and with an armed military escort consisting of armored personnel carriers and commandos using Land Rovers.
		Travel by road after dark is hazardous throughout southeastern Turkey and quite possibly you won't be allowed to travel at night, anyway.
		The political wing of the PKK in Turkey is the Democratic Peoples Party, known as Hadep.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/turkey/getnarnd.htm (624 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Although the PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire after Turkey captured its leader Abdullah Ocalan in February 1999, in June 2004 the organization renounced its ceasefire.
		• "Democratic Society Movement": When the Kurdish nationalist Democratic Peoples Party (DEHAP) lost stronghold cities such as Bingol, Siirt, Van, Mus, and Agri in the March 28, 2004, local elections -- a sign that PKK/Kongra-Gel's appeal is in decline -- Ocalan started the process of establishing a political party.
		The PKK is still able to create disorder in Turkey's southeast, and thus has the ability to create an unsafe environment with which it can manipulate Turkey's European Union (EU) accession negotiations, block the integration of Kurds into Turkish society, and create discord in Turkish-Iraqi/Kurdish and Turkish-U.S. relations.
	www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=2217 (1147 words)

	Emeğin Partisi - EMEP - The Party of Labour
		Emeğin Partisi - EMEP - The Party of Labour
		It was underlined in the speeches rendered at the manifestation that the gathering of Newroz, the resistance day of all the oppressed peoples of the Middle East, Mesopotamia and the Asia Minor and the messenger of spring, was the best response to the tyrants of today.
		Besides political parties and democratic mass organisations; such labour organisations as the Istanbul Branches Platform of KESK, TUMTIS, Maritime and Shipyard Workers' Union (Limter-Is), General Workers' Union (Genel- Is), Communication Workers Union (Haber-Is) and the Textile Workers' Union (Tekstil Sen) also participated in the manifestation.
	www.emep.org /news/Newroz05.html (531 words)

	The Earthquake, Europe, and Prospects for Political Change in Turkey
		A related problem in Turkey is the powerful role of the military in politics.(10) The military has directly intervened to overthrow three governments in 1960, 1971, and 1980, and in 1997 played a central role in forcing the Islamist prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, to resign.
		In 1993 and 1994, the pro-Kurdish People’s Labor and Democratic parties were banned, and in 1998 the Islamist Refah (Welfare) party, the leading vote-getter in the 1995 elections, was similarly prohibited.
		Yet if Turkey were to become an equal member, it would have to accept a great deal of interference in its domestic affairs and a clear loss of national sovereignty, particularly on such sensitive issues as human rights, constitutional reform, and the role of the military.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2001/issue2/jv5n2a4.html (5735 words)

	NigerianNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		All may not be well with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as an alleged N300 million bribe is said to have divided principal officers of the party..
		A power bloc in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), is divided over whether to pull out of the ruling party to form a new one or align with any of the other existing 29 parties in the country.
		Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congresses turned tragic in Edo State at the weekend as a clash between two factions in Etsako East Council led to the death of two persons.
	www.nigeriannews.com /Nigeria_main_October_2005.htm (7087 words)

	Ocalan claims his rights were breached during his trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Even then, either party can appeal and ask for the case to be heard by a grand chamber of 17 judges.
		The party denies the accusations and says it advocates a negotiated solution to the conflict as well as the granting of cultural rights for the country's some 12 million Kurds.
		Ankara was incensed that the document included a reference to the need for Turkey to "strongly support" U.N. efforts to resolve the Cyprus dispute among the short term aims.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=499 (425 words)

	TURKEY: Why `Islamists' trounced the ruling parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Turkey's powerful military command and its ruling-class political parties are nervous about a US attack on Iraq, not out of anti-imperialism but out of the fear that it may encourage Iraqi Kurds, and therefore also Turkey's oppressed Kurds, to rebel and set up a Kurdish state.
		Turkey and Israel agreed in July to enhance their security relationship, jointly appealing to Washington to approve Ankara's purchase and possible co-production of the Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile interceptor, developed by the US and recently deployed in Israel.
		However, the military is now the loudest opponent of the democratic reforms — such as the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of some Kurdish language and cultural rights — demanded by the EU as conditions for Turkey's admittance.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2002/518/518p18.htm (2114 words)

	Nasarawa State Official Website
		The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Nasarawa State has set up a committee to investigate the activities of the party at all levels in the state.
		The National Democratic Party (NDP), Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State chapter has said that members of the party in the local government have not decided to decamp en-masse into the state ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
		People from all works of life trooped to Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, penultimate week, Saturday, to witness the turbanning ceremony of Alhaji Awwal Yusuf Musa 11, as the 21st Madaki Lafia.
	www.nasarawastate.org /newsday/news/nasarawa (13246 words)

	Political Parties
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		Alliance of Free Democrats or SzDSz [Gabor KUNCZE]; Hungarian Civic Alliance or Fidesz-MPP [Jozsef SZAJER, chairman]; Hungarian Democratic Forum or MDF [Ibolya DAVID]; Hungarian Democratic People's Party or MDNP [Erzsebet PUSZTAI, chairman]; Hungarian Socialist Party or MSzP [Laszlo KOVACS, chairman]; Hungarian Workers' Party or MMP [Gyula THURMER, chairman]
		Democratic Labor Party or DLP [KIM Hye-kyung, chairman]; Grand National Party or GNP [PARK Geun Hye, chairman]; Millennium Democratic Party or MDP [HAHN Hwa-kap, chairman]; United Liberal Democrats or ULD [KIM Hak-won, chairman]; Uri Party [LEE Bu-yeong, chairman]
	siakhenn.tripod.com /parties.html (2454 words)

	Ahmet Sezer chosen new president of Turkey
		The social democratic Republican Peoples Party, the former state party of the founder of the Turkish republic, Kemal Attaturk, which lost its parliamentary seats in the last election, also welcomed Sezer, as did the Kurdish nationalist Democratic Peoples Party (HADEP).
		Shortly before the government of the Islamic Welfare Party was forced to resign by the military in a behind-the-scenes putsch, Sezer worked to ban the party.
		It is likely that the general enthusiasm for the “democratic reformer” will fade quickly—too contradictory are the interests which lie behind the “democracy” which all sides profess to support.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/may2000/turk-m11_prn.shtml (1347 words)

	The Administration, Congress, and the Iraqi Opposition
		Bet Nahrain Democratic Party: A public relations group associated with the mission of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (#12).
		Iraqi Socialist Party: Based in London and headed by Mubir Wais, a Nassarist, who probably is under the control of Cairo or Damascus.
		Kurdistan Toilers Party: Led by Khalid Zangana who is a supporter of the PUK (#74).
	www.fas.org /news/iraq/1998/06/980618-in.htm (1896 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Campaign to speak Kurdish in Bitlis Daily News Turkey
		Bitlis: DEHAP [Democratic Peoples Party] Provincial Secretary Vedat Yamac has announced that the party has launched a campaign for speaking in Kurdish.
		In addition, we have launched a campaign of speaking Kurdish in our district, where the Kurdish language, just as throughout the region, is faced with the danger of assimilation.
		Yamac said that the campaign, which is beginning with the members and the officers of the party itself, will be expanded to encompass all the people.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20030806124725396 (313 words)

	Middle East Institute: Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Republic of Turkey occupies a strategic position in western Asia and southeastern Europe.
		Turkey’s incorporation of diverse ethnic groups — Kurds are the largest minority, Arabs are the third largest group — adds to its unique position and role in the Middle East and in Europe.
		Turkey’s eventual entrance into the European Union is still uncertain.
	www.mideasti.org /countries/countries.php?name=turkey (336 words)

	bitterlemons-international.org - Middle East Roundtable
		In this regard, both the new Iraqi government and the Iraqi Kurds have a responsibility to act against the PKK--the former to demonstrate its sovereignty against a foreign terror group on its soil, the latter to prove their sincerity in the global war on terror.
		The Europeans are already under the spotlight; many of the PKK's front organizations--including its media arms, such as Roj TV in Denmark--enjoy safe haven inside Europe.
		Turkey is no exception when it comes to terrorism
	www.bitterlemons-international.org /inside.php?id=401 (767 words)

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