Democracy Halk Partisi

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Democracy Halk Partisi (DEHAP)
Democratic People's Party
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Party leader Tuncer Bakırhan
Secretary General Aysel Tuğluk
founding October 24, 1997
Place of foundation Ankara
resolution August 17, 2005

The Democracy Halk Partisi ( German  Democratic People's Party ; DEHAP) was a political party in Turkey that existed from 1997 to 2005 and continued the policy of the HEP , DEP and HADEP . She joined the DTP .

history

Long before HADEP was banned, DEHAP was founded as a potential alternative on October 24, 1997. On January 11, 1998, Veysi Aydın was elected chairman of the 1st Congress. He was replaced on May 9, 1998 by Mehmet Abbasoğlu. On March 13, 2003, HADEP was banned and proceedings against DEHAP were initiated. On March 26, 2003, 35 mayors who had belonged to HADEP joined DEHAP. At the 2nd Extraordinary Congress of the party, Tuncer Bakırhan was elected chairman on June 8, 2003. On January 29, 2004 DEHAP, SHP , ÖDP , EMEP , the Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi (Socialist Democracy Party = SDP) and the Özgür Parti (Free Party) formed an electoral alliance for the regional elections under the name "Unity of Democratic Forces" (tr: Democracy Güç Birliği ) a. The alliance provided mayors in 5 provincial capitals and 33 district towns. The Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) dissolved at the 3rd Congress on November 19, 2005 and decided to join the Democratic Society Party (DTP). The party headquarters in Balgat (Ankara) was left to the DTP.

program

The DEHAP program aimed at the democratization of the country, human rights , peace and the coexistence of people of different nationalities. The party saw itself as a representative of the labor movement and advocated a general amnesty for all political prisoners. In order to end the repression against Kurds and other minorities by the Turkish state, DEHAP also called for the state of emergency to be lifted in some Kurdish regions, for the ban on languages ​​and teaching of the Kurdish language to be abolished.

Election results

After HADEP had achieved 4.8% of the votes nationwide in the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 1999 and thus remained under the threshold of 10%, DEHAP achieved more than 6% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2002 , but could not either Send delegates to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey . Without the threshold clause, it would have been 50 of the 550 MPs. In 13 of the 81 provinces DEHAP received the most votes and was well ahead of the election winner, the AKP . After HADEP was banned in March 2003, 35 mayors joined DEHAP. In the 2004 local elections in Turkey , the bloc "Unity of Democratic Forces", in which the SHP was led as the leading force, but in which DEHAP provided the most votes, succeeded in electing the mayor of 5 provincial capitals, 33 District towns and a further 31 city administrations to be won.

Persecution situation

In connection with the November 2002 elections, DEHAP chairman Mehmet Abbasoğlu and some officials were charged with electoral fraud. On June 26, 2003 he, Nurettin Sönmez, former Secretary General of DEHAP, Veysi Aydın, former Chairman of DEHAP and Ayhan Demir, former Secretary General of DEHAP were sentenced by a court in Ankara to 23 months and 11 days in prison under Article 342 of the Criminal Code . The verdict was upheld in September 2003. Mehmet Abbasoğlu and Nurettin Sönmez were arrested in October 2003. They were released in August 2004. Between 2005 and 2007 there were a number of proceedings against members and functionaries of DEHAP for using the Kurdish language or for speaking from PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan with the addition of "dear one" (tr: sayın ). Many of the trials resulted in short sentences.

The proceedings initiated in 2003 to ban DEHAP were discontinued in 2011 after the Constitutional Court declared the provision of Article 108 of the Political Parties Act, according to which a party can still be banned even if it had previously dissolved, to be unconstitutional.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Cumhuriyet, January 12, 1998 in the archives ; Accessed July 10, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d Compare the article 1990'dan Bugüne, HEP'ten DTP'ye Kürtlerin Zorlu Siyaset Mücadelesi at Bianet from December 12, 2009; Accessed July 10, 2015
  3. ↑ See the weekly report 47/2005 of the Turkish Democratic Forum (DTF), which quotes a message from Radikal from November 20, 2005 .; Accessed July 10, 2015
  4. ↑ See a report by the then MPs of the Die Linke group in the European Parliament Feleknas Uca from December 1, 2002 with the title Elections in Turkey ; Accessed July 10, 2015
  5. ↑ See the report of a Munich delegation of November 12, 2002 elections in Turkey ; Accessed July 10, 2015
  6. ↑ See an article in T24 from September 23, 2001 Hızla yükselen Kürt oyları ne zaman kırıldı ; Accessed July 10, 2015
  7. ↑ See the annual report of the TIHV 2003 in English Report for 2003 . Page 273; Accessed July 10, 2015
  8. ↑ See the weekly report 40/2003 of the Turkish Democratic Forum (DTF); Accessed July 10, 2015
  9. ↑ See a list by Helmut Oberdiek from January 17, 2008 under proceedings because of Kurdish and deference to Öcalan ; Accessed July 10, 2015
  10. ↑ See a message in gazetevatan from March 13, 2011 Parti kapatmak artık tarihe karıştı ; Accessed July 10, 2015. The Constitutional Court's decision was published in the Official Gazette on February 5, 2001 .