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  "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.
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)

  
  Liberal Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberal Democratic Party or Democratic Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world.
It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal or left wing.
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.
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 Encyclopedia: Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is an (partial) overview of individuals that contributed to the development of liberal theory on a worldwide scale and therefore are strongly associated with the liberal tradition and instrumental in the exposition of political liberalism as a philosophy.
This is an overview of parties that adhere more or less (explicitly) to the ideas of political liberalism and is therefore a list of liberal parties around the world.
Liberal democracy is a form of representative democracy where the ability of elected representatives to exercise decision-making power is subject to the rule of law and moderated by a constitution which emphasizes the protection of the rights and freedoms of individuals and minorities (also called constitutional liberalism), and which...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Democratic-Party-(Turkey)   (521 words)

  
 Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Demokrat Parti) is a liberal party in Turkey.
The party is a member of Liberal International.
LDP was founded in 1994 as Liberal Parti by Turkish entrepreneur Besim Tibuk.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Turkey)   (100 words)

  
 ARMENIAN DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL Party - Ramgavar Azadagan - "Civilized" Turkey continues to usurp Armenian ...
Turkey's commitment to reform and democracy proved to be only skin deep, yet some demagogues in this country continue to present Turkey as a role model of democracy to the rest of the Moslem world.
Turkey has enjoyed this country's munificence and was looking for a $16 billion bailout of its bankrupt economy, yet it turned down its benefactor and ally at the moment of great need.
When Turkey sets up a special agency to monitor the activities of the minorities in "defense of the country", it automatically sets the stage for a legal battle, that Armenians, who are citizens of Turkey, are considered to be a subversive element and are aliens who are denied full citizenship rights.
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 ARMENIAN DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL Party - Ramgavar Azadagan - New Turkey is old Turkey
In its desire to join the European Union Turkey was forced to make some half-hearted efforts to make European leaders believe that it was capable and willing to change, to be ready to apply European standards of democracy at home and abroad.
This time around Armenians in Turkey were led to believe that under European pressure the Turkish government was about to implement the laws.
Turkey did not deliver on the other conditions of the European Union either to qualify for membership.
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 Category:Liberal parties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This includes both (free) market or classical liberal and social liberal parties, but the liberal-conservative parties are included in the sub-category liberal-conservative parties.
Also parties in the progressive liberal tradition of 'Radicalism' are included, even when these parties wouldn't label themselves as liberal.
The U.S. Democratic Party is included since it embraces a liberal wing, even in the European sense of the word.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Liberal_parties   (139 words)

  
 U.S.S.R. - The Third World Countries & U.S.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky's political party, the "Liberal Democratic Party" (LDP) is a bogus creation of the KGB that was designed to serve the purposes of the Central Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) under Gorbachev.
Yeltsin's disbanding of parliament, burning down the parliamentary "White House", and outlawing opposition parties was analogous to Hitler's disbanding of the German parliament, the burning of the "Reichstag", and the imposition of Nazi rule by outlawing opposition parties.
As the French Press Agency reports, his party is now in an advantageous position because the LDP is "the only far right party still left in the race after the crushing of a revolt by hardliners opposed to President Boris Yeltsin on October 3 and 4".
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 Democratic Party News - The New York Times
Traditionally the Democrats were more the party of agrarianism and cheap money and the opponents of protective tariffs, and even the most conservative Democrats were opposed to the control of industry and trade by the trusts and big business.
The Democratic party of the 1970s and 80s was an uneasy alliance among labor, urban, and ethnic minority groups, intellectuals and middle-class reformers, and increasingly disaffected Southern Democrats.
The party's national fortunes reversed with the 2006 congressional elections, in which voter discontent with political scandals, the war in Iraq, and other issues resulted in significant Democratic gains, giving the party control of both houses of Congress.
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 Democratic Party, Liberal Agenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Democrats always want to spend our money for us and the idea of letting all those taxpayer dollars slip through their greedy fingers sent Democrats to the airways, telling outright lies as well as severely distorting the truth.
Democratic Party politicians were eager to allow non-citizens to "slip through the cracks," to vote for Democratic candidates, as directed by cynical Democrats who don't give a bunny's behind who votes for them, as long as they garner political power.
Liberal Democrats, Socialists, and other radical Leftists do not have the best interest of our country in mind, but are consumed by a drive to consolidate political power and bend the entire legislative branch of government to their idiosyncratic will.
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 CER | Albania: Ruling against the Central Electoral Commission
The SP must have concluded that the Liberal Democrats have the necessary intellectual reputation and influence to compete successfully in the north.
The small Liberal Democratic Party, which split off from the DP in 1994-1995, has recently faced an intense internal debate on whether it should ally itself with the SP or the DP.
Democrats maintain that they are in favor of a fair and honest electoral race, and a DP official characterized the proposal as a reflection of the SP's fear of dealing directly with the elections.
www.ce-review.org /01/15/albanianews15.html   (843 words)

  
 Travel Guide To Turkey, Guide de la Turquie, GUIDE MARTINE, Guide to Turkey, Guide de Turquie, Travel, Turkey, Voyage, ...
SPREAD OF Mustafa Kemal, born in Salonika in 1881, was a student at the Manastir Military academy and later at the War College in Constantinople.
Turkey’s best allied country was the United States who took the country under the Marshall Plan in 1948.
The Democratic Party leaders were imprisoned and brought to trial on the charges of coruption, unconstitutional rule and high treason.
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 Liberal Democrats, British political party
The Social Democratic party, which was formed in 1981 by politically centrist members of the
In the 2001 and 2005 parliamentary elections the Liberal Democrats won 52 and 62 seats respectively.
The 2005 result was the largest number won by the group since the predecessor Liberals gained 158 seats in 1924.
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 ABC News: Koizumi's Party Heads for Landslide Win   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles as he places a red rosette during the ballot counting for the parliamentary lower house election at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, Sept 11, 2005.
TOKYO Sep 11, 2005 — Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, seeking a mandate for sweeping government reforms, was headed for a landslide victory in elections for Japan's lower house of Parliament, national media predicted after polls closed Sunday.
The main opposition party, the Democrats, was expected to win 104 seats, a devastating plunge from its previous 175 seats, NHK said.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms.
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.
Turkey's dynamic economy is a complex mix of modern industry and commerce along with a traditional agriculture sector that in 2004 still accounted for more than 35% of employment.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/tu.html   (1543 words)

  
 Joefish's Freshwater Blog
National Democrats have abandoned their anti-war Senate candidate in Connecticut, say liberal bloggers who earlier this year were heavily courted by top Democrats in their quest to take over Congress.
Democratic nominee Ned Lamont -- darling of the left-wing blogosphere -- now trails Sen. Joe Lieberman by 10 points or more, and the highly energized bloggers who helped win him the nomination in August blame the national party.
Liberal vitriol in recent weeks has been directed at some of the Democratic Party's most beloved figures, such as former President Bill Clinton, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York and even rising star Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
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 Will a liberal Kurdish Paty in Turkey succeed?
Elci said the DKP was a liberal democratic party.
In fact, five months after the party was founded the Turkish State Court took action to close down the party and it was finally banned in 1999.
It seems that the new to be established Kurdish liberal party to be elitist as well.
www.nadir.org /nadir/initiativ/kurdi-almani-kassel/aktuell/innerkurd_disk/kurd_liberal_party.htm   (842 words)

  
 Turkish Probe October 11
As they continue to conduct regular party activities such as presenting a series of motions before Parliament, fresh from its summer recess, opposition Virtue Party (FP) circles are waiting for the verdicts to be handed down by courts in a number of cases involving the party.
He said that even the FP efforts to shed its image as an ideological party and to be a party for all Turkey, were being criticized as "takiyye," that is, an attempt at religious deception.
Arinc, too, said that they aimed to shed the image of an ideological party pinned on the FP, and to be a party for all of Turkey, embracing all segments of society.
www.theinternationalpost.com /arincgul2.htm   (1745 words)

  
 Vladimir Zhirinovsky
(The first one was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that got disbanded by Yeltsin in 1991.) The LDP was eventually transformed into the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).
In fact, his party finished second in the party list vote (11.18%) and won 51 Duma seats (11.33%) in the December, 1995, parliamentary elections, so the LDPR now has the third largest Duma faction (behind the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Our Home Is Russia).
The seventh congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia nominated Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a candidate in the presidential election of June 1996, Russian media reported on January 10.
www.cs.indiana.edu /~dmiguse/Russian/vzbio.html   (2093 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
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 Internal Front Groups: Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the 'Centrist Bloc'
It then attempted to make a show of "sharing power" with these bogus parties, using them as its supposedly "democratic partners" in a ploy aimed at denying power to the authentically democratic parties that were genuinely popular with the Soviet electorate.
A few weeks after this, the founding congress of the Liberal Democratic Party was held, an event that was announced on the front pages of all major Soviet newspapers on April 1, 1990, in marked contrast to the scant media attention that had accompanied the prior foundings of other parties.
The chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party was Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who, in contrast to the leaders of the other parties, was a political unknown.
intellit.muskingum.edu /russia_folder/pcw_era/sect_07.htm   (2368 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
The opposition delegation consists of Anatol Lyabedzka and Yaraslaw Ramanchuk of the United Civic Party, and Syarhey Haydukevich of the Liberal Democratic Party.
The statement notes that members of democratic, nongovernmental organizations were not included on election commissions, and that 30-40 percent of opposition nominees were denied registration as candidates.
The Social Democratic Party's (CSSD) parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies on 19 February rallied behind the CSSD leadership's choice of philosopher and former Education Minister Jan Sokol as the party's candidate in the 28 February presidential vote, CTK reported (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 18 February 2002).
www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/02/3-CEE/cee-200203.asp?po=y   (2485 words)

  
 Jubilee Research: Jubilee 2000 Daily Press Cuttings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
According to Makoto Koga, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s secretary general, the party would "elect a successor" later this month.
Turkey: About 5,000 tradesmen marched through the capital of Ankara waving banners and chanting slogans after Turkey raised gasoline prices by 20% and diesel fuel prices by 18% earlier in the day.
According to Rusdu Saracoglu, former governor of the Central Bank of Turkey, in his article "Turkey needs economic, and political, reforms", writes that there is a general consensus that the new economic program will have to focus primarily on the weak banking system and the profligate public sector.
www.jubilee2000uk.org /media/daily/daily020401.htm   (4650 words)

  
 McNair Paper 30 - Chapter 1
Zhirinovskiy's party and the other 12 parties or blocs qualifying for the 12 December parliamentary election were each given 100 million rubles to conduct the campaign, according to a staffer of the Central Electoral Commission's press service.
Zavidiya disagreed with a suggestion that the Communist Party or KGB were behind the establishment of the Liberal Democratic Party.
He further claims that the selection of a prospective party leader was left to the KGB, that it chose Zhirinovskiy, that the name Liberal Democratic was invented there and then, and that the party was officially registered two weeks later--the first party to be officially registered in the USSR.
www.ndu.edu /inss/McNair/mcnair30/m030ch01.html   (5675 words)

  
 National Review: Turkey Shoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turkey's armed forces and its equally secular political establishment orchestrated his political demise without gunfire.
Turkey's large, emerging market grew 7.4 per cent last year and attracted $16.8 billion in foreign investment in 1995, including $885 million from U.S. businesses plus $3.7 billion in American exports.
Turkey has looked Westward since 1923 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk set this ancient country on a modern, secular path.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_14_49/ai_59451075   (1305 words)

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