Cumhuriyetçi Turk Partisi

Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi Republican-Turkish Party
Party leader	Mehmet Ali Talat
Secretary General	Tufan Erhürman
founding	1970
Headquarters	Lefkoşa (North Nicosia)
Alignment	Social democracy
Colours)	green
Parliament seats	12/50
International connections	Progressive Alliance , Socialist International (SI)
European party	Party of European Socialists (PES)
Website	www.ctp-bg.org

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Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi (abbreviation CTP , in German Republican-Turkish Party ) is a social democratic party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus .

The CTP was founded on December 27, 1970 under the leadership of Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu and is the oldest Turkish Cypriot party. She is an associate member of the Socialist International .

In the 2005 elections, the CTP got 44.51 percent of the vote and was able to claim 25 of the 50 seats in the Assembly of the Republic for itself.

In the early elections in 2013, the CTP received 38.38 percent of the vote and was able to claim 21 of the 50 seats in the Assembly of the Republic for itself. They formed a coalition government with the Demokrat Parti . In July 2015, the cabinet under Prime Minister Özkan Yorgancıoğlu resigned and the coalition fell.

In the 2018 elections, the party lost 9 of its seats and only has 12 of the 50 MPs. She provided the prime minister until May 2019, when the coalition partner Halkın Partisi terminated the coalition due to internal disputes and formed a new government with the Ulusal Birlik Partisi .

Web links

• Internet presence of the party

Individual evidence

1. ^ Election results , BBC Turkish , accessed February 22, 2008
2. ↑ Election result ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 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.