Buyuk Birlik Partisi
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| Party leader | Mustafa Destici |
| founding | 1993 by Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu |
| Alignment | Islamism , nationalism , right-wing extremism |
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1/600 |
| Number of members | 28,460 (July 1, 2019) |
| Website | www.bbp.org.tr |
The Büyük Birlik Partisi (short name: BBP , Turkish for "Party of Great Unity" or "Great Unity Party") is a right-wing extremist Islamist - nationalist political party in Turkey . Its founding chairman, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, died in a helicopter crash in March 2009.
Emergence
The BBP came into being when the radical wing of the “Party of Nationalist Labor” - as the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi was called in the meantime - around the MP Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu broke away from the party on July 7, 1992 and finally founded a party at the “historic decision-making party” announced new party. On January 29, 1993, the "Great Unity Party" was officially founded. According to her own website, she regards herself as the true heiress of the nationalist MHP and feels part of the Turkish “idealist” movement , from whose ranks chairman Yazıcıoğlu emerged.
Party program and statutes
The islam
The party understands Islam as the religion that brings prosperity, peace and justice. It means honor and happiness. At the same time, Islam is a holy source of strength. Islam has brought the basic constitution ( düstur ) to the people and shows the direction.
In its 1993 program, the BBP emphasized Islam as the main element of its Turkish-Islamic identity. Harald Schüler reproduces the passage as follows:
“The source and foundation of our understanding of politics are our beliefs and our cultural values, which have maintained our nation for centuries and have ensured that we have an honorable place in history. Our faith, which is the defining element of our Muslim-Turkish identity, gives us those indispensable principles that ensure that our nation will occupy the place it deserves today and in the future. "
The current party program also states that Turkey's political elite did not care about the interests of God and the people, but about the welfare of the West.
Secularism
According to the party program, laicism is synonymous with the neutrality of the state towards religion. Secularism also includes the right to freedom of expression and the free exercise of religious belief, in particular participation in religious ceremonies and the right to religious training.
Nationalism and the Kurdish question
Economic and social cooperation with the “Turkish world” is formulated as a goal. Turkey and “her fellow citizens in the East” would become a day wage earner for the interests of the West, who also represented the “shabby values” of the West.
Nationalism, which insists on the “principle of race”, is rejected according to the party program. Kurds are not viewed as an independent people, but as "brothers who belong to the same indivisible people".
Right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism
According to various reports on the protection of the constitution, the BBP is viewed as a right-wing extremist and part of the Gray Wolf movement, which has a “racist-nationalist orientation” and stands for “willingness to use violence and totalitarian structures”. Islamic scholar Michael Kiefer sees similarities to the German NPD in the BBP's program . Other experts also speak of anti-Semitic and militant tendencies. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung regards the BBP as "extremely nationalistic."
Assassination of Hrant Dink
The BBP is said to have participated in the 2007 murder plot against the Armenian-born publicist Hrant Dink . It emerged that the current chairman of the BBP in Trabzon had transferred money to the family of alleged perpetrator Yasin Hayal while he was in custody for an attack on a McDonald's branch. The party leadership claimed it was a "donation for someone in need" that had nothing to do with the murder.
Ship-to-Gaza incident
During the Ship-to-Gaza incident on May 31, 2010, 581 activists from the Free Gaza Movement and other organizations, including around 400 Turkish citizens, were on the Mavi Marmara . Among them were representatives of the Büyük Birlik Partisi.
Election results
In the local elections in Turkey in 1994, the BBP obtained 0.43 percent of the votes nationwide and provided a total of eleven mayors throughout Turkey. Local strongholds of the BBP in the provincial council elections in the same year were the provinces of Sivas (18%) and Kahramanmaraş . Harald Schüler attributes this to the fact that Sivas is the home province of chairman Yazıcıoğlu and that the party successfully exploits the political-religious opposition between Alevis and Sunnis . Nationwide, she won 1.26 percent of the vote.
Through an electoral alliance with the Anavatan Partisi (ANAP), seven BBP MPs were able to move into the Turkish Grand National Assembly for the ANAP in the early elections in 1995 . A year later, the electoral alliance failed and the MPs turned their backs on the ANAP. In the 2002 parliamentary elections , the BBP's share of the vote was 1.02 percent. In 2006 the BBP appointed eleven mayors, three of them in Trabzon Province and two in Sivas Province . In the 2007 parliamentary elections , Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu ran as an independent candidate and was directly elected to parliament.
Organs and subsidiary organizations
The highest party organ is the "Great Party Congress" ( Büyük Kurultay ). It meets every two years. Between the party congresses, the "Central Decision-making Bureau " ( Merkez Karar Yönetim Kurulu ) is the highest party authority. It consists of 80 main and 40 substitute members. The chairman of the presidium is the party chairman. The “Board of Directors” ( Başkanlık Divanı ) manages day-to-day business. It consists of the chairman, the general secretary and the deputy chairmen. There is also a "Central Disciplinary Council" ( Merkez Disiplin Kurulu ) consisting of nine main and nine substitute members who are elected at the "Great Party Congress". The “General Advisory Board” ( Genel İstişare Kurulu ) consists of the Presidium, Board of Directors, Disciplinary Council, area coordinators , chairmen of women's and youth associations, provincial chairmen, mayors and other members appointed by the Board of Directors.
Association of Turkish Cultural Associations in Europe
In Europe, the BBP is represented by the “ Association of Turkish Cultural Associations in Europe ” ( Avrupa Türk Birliği , ATB). The organization was founded in 2002 as the successor to Avrupa Nizam-ı Alem Ocakları Federasyonu (ANOF). Erol Yazıcıoğlu has been chairman since 2011 . The website atb-europa.com explains:
"Whoever denies his religion is nothing, whoever denies his tribe is a bastard"
They also claim:
“Nationalism is our blood, the essence of the gray wolf is our tribe, on the way of ALLAH our way is one. We are the ALPERENs, the grandchildren of the Ottomans . We give our lives for the red flag with the crescent moon and star. "
The Ocakları Alps
The youth organizations of the BBP call themselves Alperen Ocakları ( ocak means “hearth” but in this sense it is used as “shelter” or “meeting place”). Your Istanbul representative, Kürşat Mican, made homophobic statements in June 2016 when he described the organizers and participants of the planned Gay Pride Istanbul as "degenerate". He turned to the authorities responsible for approving the parade with the following remark: “Dear officials, do not make us have to deal with them. Either you do what needs to be done or we will do it. We are ready to take any risk. We will prevent the parade from taking place. ”The governor's office later announced that the traditional parade in Istanbul's İstiklal Caddesi shopping street would not be approved“ out of concern for the safety of participants and citizens and to protect public order ” .
Web links
- Internet presence of the BBP
- Internet presence of the "Alperen Ocakları"
- Internet presence of the European organization
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- ↑ Current membership numbers . Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Party program in Turkish (PDF) ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Harald Schüler: The Turkish parties and their members. German Orient Institute Hamburg 1998, (p. 111)
- ↑ a b Questionable Peace Mission - Who Was on the Ship to Gaza? 3sat.de, accessed on July 24, 2011 .
- ↑ faz.net of January 25, 2007
- ↑ New arrests after the murder of Hrant Dink. In: Welt Online. March 26, 2007, accessed July 24, 2011 .
- ^ Report Mainz, June 7, 2010: Questionable peace mission (video). Send typoscript ( RTF ; 38 kB)
- ↑ Harald Schüler: The Turkish parties and their members. German Orient Institute Hamburg 1998, (p. 114)
- ↑ Safety concerns: Gay Pride in Istanbul canceled . Article from June 17, 2016 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on June 17, 2016
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