Turkey
Political Parties
Left-wing
Democratic Left Party
Republican People's Party
Justice and Development Party
Motherland Party
Nationalist Action Party
True Path Party
Youth Party
Left-wing
Communist Party of Turkey
Freedom and Solidarity Party
Labour Party
Social Democratic People's Party
Socialist Democracy Party
Socialist Democratic Party
Workers' Party
People's Ascent Party
Right-wing
Great Union Party
Homeland Party


Political environment
Turkey is a presidential republic with a centralised administration. The country is divided into 81 provinces, each with a governor. The president is elected by the parliament for a period of 7 years. The president appoints the prime minister, he is usually the leader of the biggest party. The 550 members of parliament are chosen for a 5 year term, they are chosen through a system of proportional representation. The biggest parties have an advantage because of the electoral threshold of 10%. The judiciary power is separate and the Court could cancel laws from the parliament.

Members of the European People’s Party

  • Justice & Development Party (AKP)
    AKP is a mass party who defines itself as 'Conservative Democrat'. It represents a new style of politics and a new understanding in Turkish political life. The understanding of the AKP, which emphasizes both universal as well as local and traditional values, together with the secular and democratic structure of Turkey, stresses the culture of national and international political grounds.
    Perception of 'conservatism' in the AKP is; a modernity which doesn't exclude tradition, universality which accepts locality, rationality which doesn't reject spirit and the change without going into radicalism. Instead of the old, strait-laced understanding od 'conservatism', AKP is engaged in modern and contemporary 'conservatism' which is open to the new.
    AKP is a reformist movement, which is improvong in an evolutionary and natural manner and which defines a change as is is based on societal transformation.

    For more information see: http://eng.akparti.org.tr/english/index.html Projects and activities
    Project: Study Visit by the CDJA to Turkey (August 2005)
    EFF Representative: Wietze Smid
    A group consisting of eight CDJA (the CDA's youth organisation) members undertook a study visit to Turkey in August 2005. During the visit, an exhaustive meeting with the AKP's youth organisation took place. The delegation also met with Turkish Members of Parliament, representatives of the European Commission, staff members of Amnesty International, the Mayor of Ankara, the Head of the Turkish delegation for EU matters (also the Minister of Economic Affairs), the Minister of Women's Affairs, the Director of the Turkish subsidiary of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and Church representatives.

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    Reports

  • Relief Web

    • English newspapers

  • Turkish daily news
  • Online newspapers

    • Links

  • The World Fact book
  • The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe


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