Emek Partisi

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Emek Partisi (Labor Party)
Emek Partisi Logo.svg
Party leader Selma Gurkan
founding 1996
Headquarters Fevzi Çakmak 1 Sokak No. 15/5, Ankara
Alignment socialism
Colours) red

The Emek Partisi (or EMEP ), German  Labor Party , is a Marxist-Leninist and Hoxhaist workers' party in Turkey, founded in 1996 . She is committed to scientific socialism .

Development of the party

EMEP was founded by members of the illegal Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi (TDKP, Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey). It existed as Emek Partisi between March 27, 1996 and February 14, 1997. It was banned by the Constitutional Court for violating Articles 78 and 81 of the Law on Political Parties with the number 2820. The Emeğin Partisi (can also be translated as the Party of Labor or Labor and abbreviated to EMEP) was founded on November 26, 1996. Both parties were initially headed by Abdullah Levent Tüzel . In a decision of May 31, 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the party's ban violated Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Thereupon the Emeğin Partisi renamed itself again in November 2005 in Emek Partisi .

The party is close to the Halkların Demokratik Partisi .

Participation in elections

The Emek Partisi has participated in all national elections since its inception. She has entered into coalitions with various parties. In the elections to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2002 , it formed a bloc "Workers, Peace, Democracy" with 20 parties and political groups, and in the regional elections in 2004 a similar coalition was put together as the "bloc of united forces". In the 2007 elections , EMEP was directly involved in some places and in coalitions with independent candidates in others. Abdullah Levent Tüzel stood for election in Izmir as an independent candidate for the forces “Labor and Democracy” and received 36,167 votes (a share of 3.4%). With that he missed the election to the MP.

In the 2011 elections there was again the block “Labor, Peace, Democracy”, for which independent candidates ran for election (including representatives from EMEP). Levent Tüzel faced the elections in the 3rd area of ​​Istanbul and was elected as an independent candidate. The party's own share of the vote remained small. In the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2007 , the Emek Partisi won 0.08% of the total vote. In the 2011 elections , the party received a total of 21,128 votes, 0.07% of the total.

Current situation

Protests against imperialism

Since 2011 the party leader is Selma Gürkan. The daily Evrensel is close to the party. On December 19, 2011 the 6th Congress of the party took place, at which a 45-member board was elected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the program and the statutes of the party ( memento of the original of November 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Turkish) Retrieved October 21, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emep.org
  2. ^ Opinion of the SFH on activities for the TDKP of July 9, 2009; Retrieved October 19, 2012
  3. ↑ a b A list of parties in the Republic of Turkey in the library of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey; Retrieved October 20, 2012
  4. ↑ The judgment was issued in the Emek Partisi and Şenol v. Turkey (No. 39434/98), Osman Nuri Şenol, was the chairman of the party at the time of the ban. The judgment is only available in French. The essential facts are summarized in a press release echr.coe.int (English) accessed on October 20, 2012
  5. ↑ See a list of political parties in Turkey ; Retrieved October 20, 2012
  6. ↑ a b c This statement by the former chairman of EMEP, Levent Tüzel, is in a column by Serpil Yılmaz in the Habertürk portal on August 20, 2012 under the title EMEP: PKK ile ittifak yapmadık! to read; Retrieved October 20, 2012
  7. ↑ The information is from a homepage in his name under Abdullah Levent Tüzel kimdir? ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 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. removed; Retrieved October 21, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aleventtuzel.org
  8. ↑ See his page as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ; Retrieved October 21, 2012
  9. ↑ See a message EMEP'in 6th Büyük Kongresi yapıldı at sendika.org with the names of the board members and guests present; Retrieved October 21, 2012