Green Party (Turkey)

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Green Party
Yeşiller Partisi
AbbreviationYeşiller
LeaderEmine Özkan (female spokesperson)
Koray Doğan Urbarlı (male spokesperson)
Founded21 September 2020 (2020-09-21)
Split fromGreen Left Party
HeadquartersAnkara
IdeologyGreen liberalism
Green politics
Feminism
LGBT rights
Political positionCentre-Left
Colours  Green
Slogan«Our house is on fire! We will put out this fire!»
(Turkish: «Evimiz yanıyor! Bu yangını söndüreceğiz!»)
Grand National Assembly
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Website
yesiller.org.tr

Green Party (Turkish: Yeşiller Partisi also Yeşiller for short) is a green liberal party in Turkey founded in 2020.[1]

Party programme[]

  • Carbon-free economy: Greens say that fossil fuel dependency is the main cause of the climate change that has shaken political and social structures, and economic dynamics around the world; and of climate change in Turkey. They aim to stop all fossil fuel use by 2050 and reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. In order to achieve this Greens encourage responsible use of the nation's solar energy and wind power and phasing out the use of coal in Turkey.[2][3]
  • Green New Deal: Greens aim for a total transformation of the economy of Turkey by supporting the nation's energy and transport infrastructure change, energy efficiency, creating good jobs, increasing the quality of life, cooperatives, sustainable tourism in Turkey, small scale agriculture in Turkey, care services, alternative and informal jobs.[2]
  • Water as a right for all:
    See also: Hydroelectricity in Turkey and right to water
    Greens say that water is a commons that belongs to all humans, other living beings and future generations. Greens will develop policies that will repair the broken hydrological cycle and foster water conservation in agricultural, domestic and industrial domains.[2]
  • Good, Clean, Healthy Food for All:
    See also: Environmental issues in Turkey
    Greens will ban pesticides which put the country's biodiversity, natural resources, human and animal lives at risk. We will create a support system to prevent the farmers dependency on companies and pesticides. We will prevent the depletion of natural resources, soil degradation, deforestation and desertification through holistic, restorative and sustainable agricultural practices.[2]
  • Gender and Sexuality: Greens say that gender and sexuality in the country is an area of rights, equality and freedom and set out to displace the patriarchal ideology and make structural and relational change in order to achieve liberation for all individuals, women, men and LGBTQI+ through equal citizenship.[2]

History[]

Greens Party (Turkish: Yeşiller Partisi) (website yesiller.org) was a green liberal party in Turkey. Being the 57th political party of Turkey, it was established on June 30, 2008 after years of preparation since 2002.

A green party with the same name was established prior to its establishment in 1988 (its founding President was former Health Minister Celal Ertuğ (in Turkish)). The latter was closed down in 1994, and its third and last President was Aydın Ayas, who took the eco-liberal turn for the party.

Greens maintained local branches and initiatives in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Tekirdağ, and Antalya.[4] Greens were known as the Greens of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye'nin Yeşilleri, Yeşiller Partisi) prior to the founding of the party. The party held its first general congress on June 6, 2010.

In November 2012, it merged with the Equality and Democracy Party to form the Greens and the Left Party of the Future, YSGP for short. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices.

After the splitting, Yeşil Siyaset Meclisi was founded with the idea of founding a green party again one day. After 4 years of preparation, Yeşiller Partisi was founded on September 21, 2020 again with 110 founding members whom 55 of them are women and 55 of them are men.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Türkiye'de Yeşiller Partisi kuruldu, partinin ilkeleri ve hedefleri neler?" [Green party formed in Turkey, what are the party's principles and aims?]. BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). 2020-09-22.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Parti Programı" [Party program]. Yeşiller Partisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  3. ^ "With climate absent from Ankara's agenda, Turkey's Greens sense an opening". POLITICO. 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  4. ^ "European Green Party - Turkey". Archived from the original on 2006-10-14. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
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