Destur party

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Delegate to the Congress of the Destur Party in Ksar Hellal

The Destur Party ( French Destour ; Arabic الحزب الحر الدستوري, DMG al-Ḥizb al-ḥurr ad-dustūrī ) was a Tunisian political party that was founded on June 4, 1920 by the local leadership during the French protectorate .

The party's goal was to achieve the liberation of the former Ottoman province of Tunisia from French colonial control.

The party name Destur is usually translated as constitutionalism , which was a political program of the party. The term is probably of Persian origin - passed down through the presence of Turkish rulers in North Africa from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. There is no tradition of this word from the Arab period - pronounced "during the pre-Islamic period" - neither in the Koran, nor in the hadiths, nor in Arabic literature during the period before the Ottoman rule in Egypt and Tunisia. In the Kurdish language Kurmanji, the word destûr means "permission".

The party split in 1934. From the modernist- laicist wing, the Neo-Destur party emerged , which advocated a separation between state and religion. In 1964 Destur Party and Neo Destur Party were reorganized into President Habib Bourguiba's Socialist Destur Unity Party .

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  1. a b The Brockhaus in five volumes . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 2004. Page 4886
  2. Petra Wurzel, Rojbaş . Introduction to the Kurdish language. Key and dictionary, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-88226-995-2 , pp. 26, 57