Homeland Party (Turkey, 2021)

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Not to be confused with Yurt Partisi, another active political party in Turkey that translates to the same name.
Homeland Party
Memleket Partisi
ChairpersonMuharrem İnce
General Secretary
Spokesperson
Deputy Chairperson
FounderMuharrem İnce
Founded4 September 2020 (2020-09-04) (as a movement)
Registered17 May 2021 (2021-05-17) (as a party)
Split fromRepublican People's Party (CHP)
HeadquartersÇankaya, Ankara
Membership (2022)Increase 17,884[2]
IdeologyPopulism
Kemalism
Turkish nationalism
Secularism
Political positionCentre-left
Colours  Blue
  Light blue
Slogan(MAVİ)
Homeland, Justice, Conscience, and Jobs for the jobless!
Grand National Assembly
3 / 600
District mayors
1 / 922
Website
memleketpartisi.org.tr

The Homeland Party (Turkish: Memleket Partisi) is a political party in Turkey that was founded on 17 May 2021 by Muharrem İnce, the former candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the 2018 presidential elections. The party originated as a social movement (Homeland Movement[3]) on September 2020, two years after the election. It split from the CHP after İnce failed to unseat serving CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu from his position.[4] İnce was also encouraged to establish a party during his Homeland Movement campaign.[5] The party is largely seen as a protest movement against the established CHP leadership, which has refused to resign despite consecutive election losses and has been accused by İnce of straying from the CHP's core Kemalist values.[6] It has three seats in the Grand National Assembly, and one district mayor, in İbradı, Antalya.

History[]

Homeland Movement[]

The Homeland Movement was founded by Muharrem İnce in Sivas on 4 September 2020, marking the anniversary of the Sivas Congress, with the motto of "Homeland Movement Within One Thousand Days (Bin Günde Memleket Hareketi)". İnce stated that the aim of the movement during its foundation as "...not a intraparty opposition movement, we are offering an alternative to Turkey. Turkey needs to reunite and share. The name of the movement that we started today is 'Homeland Within 1000 Days' movement."[7]

Partification[]

Muharrem İnce, on 8 December 2020, stated that he would leave the CHP, which he had been a member of since 1992, and that the Homeland Movement would be registered as a political party. The name and logo of the party would be made public by himself at a press conference in the future.[8] İnce started a three-day preseason training in Nevşehir on 25 January 2021 with a team that consisted of 80 people, and said: "We have unanimously accepted our party constitution".[9]

Muharrem İnce said that the party's foundation application would be given to the Ministry of Interior in April 2021.[10] It was eventually provided earlier than expected on 17 May, at which time the party was officially established. Upon establishment, the party had three serving MPs in Parliament, all three of which had previously resigned from the CHP, the party also had one district mayor representing them (), a former mayor for the CHP that joined İnce.

References[]

  1. ^ "Memleket Partisi Resmi Web Sitesi" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Memleket Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  3. ^ See “History” for more information about the movement.
  4. ^ "Kılıçdaroğlu Muharrem İncenin siyasi parti yapılanması iddialarına yanıt verdi" [Kılıçdaroğlu responds to claims of İnce forming a party]. sozcu.com.tr (in Turkish). Sözcü Gazetesi. 1 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "İnce 'parti kurayım mı?' diye sordu, yurttaşlar yanıt verdi; "Kur, kur!"" [İnce; “The people want me to establish a political party.”] (in Turkish). Cumhuriyet Gazetesi (cumhuriyet.com.tr). 11 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Muharrem İnce istifa etti: CHP tabeladan ibaret" [İnce has resigned, accuses CHP.] (in Turkish). Gazete duvaR. (gazeteduvar.com.tr). 8 February 2021.
  7. ^ ""Bin günde memleket" hareketi nedir? Muharrem İnce'den önemli açıklamalar". Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Muharrem İnce parti kuracağını açıkladı". Cumhuriyet. 8 December 2020. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Muharrem İnce'den 'Memleket Partisi' açıklaması". abc.com. 25 January 2021. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Muharrem İnce: Siyasette 24 Saat Çok Uzun Zaman". www.milliyet.com. 3 April 2021.

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