Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi

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Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi
Party leader Osman Bölükbaşı (1958–1962)
Ahmet Oğuz (1962–1965)
Alparslan Turkis (1965–1969)
founding October 16, 1958
renaming February 9, 1969
(renamed: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi )
Alignment Right-wing extremism
Turkish nationalism
Agrarianism
Colours) brown

The Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi ( CKMP ; dt. Republican Peasant People's Party) was a right-wing extremist party in Turkey .

history

founding

The CKMP was created on October 16, 1958 through a merger of Cumhuriyetçi Millet Partisi with Köylü Partisi . Most of the members were former Democrat Parti members who were disappointed with the party's liberal stance. The party became a reservoir for the ultra-nationalists and right-wing extremists.

The Köylü Partisi was founded in 1952 by Oğuz Remzi Arık , but could not win any seats in parliament in the elections in 1954 and 1957. The Cumhuriyetçi Millet Partisi was founded in 1954 by Osman Bölükbaşı after the previous Millet Partisi party founded in 1948 was banned in 1953 for "anti-secular activities". In the elections in 1954, the party won five seats in parliament and in 1957 four seats.

Osman Bölükbaşı was the first chairman of the new Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi.

Government participation

In the 1961 election to the National Assembly , which followed the military coup in 1960 , the party won 13.7% and 54 seats. The government was formed by the CHP and Adalet Partisi , but the coalition soon broke up on the question of an amnesty for the DP politicians convicted after the military coup. Prime Minister İsmet İnönü then negotiated with the Yeni Türkiye Partisi and CKMP about a coalition. Although many party members were in favor of government participation, the party chairman Bölükbaşı resisted. Bölükbaşı was then voted out and a new party leader was elected in Ahmet Oğuz . The party then agreed to a coalition. Hasan Dincer was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Abdülhak Kemal Yörük became Minister of Justice and Ahmet Oğuz became Minister of Commerce in 1963. In addition, the CKMP provided the Minister for Culture and Tourism.

In the following elections in 1961 and 1965, the CKMP lost a lot of support.

Renaming to MHP

On March 31, 1964, the former Colonel Alparslan Türkeş , who was significantly involved in the military coup in 1960, became a member of the party and on August 1 of the following year the new chairman of the CKMP, after important former leaders had left the party three days earlier. This also made it possible for Turks to reform the party. On February 9, 1969, the CKMP was renamed Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matthes Bube: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996, p. 74
  2. ↑ Altan Öymen: Öfkeli Yıllar , Doğan Kitap, Istanbul, ISBN 978-605-111-401-9 , p. 452
  3. ↑ 26th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed July 25, 2018