İyi Parti

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İyi Parti
Party logo
Meral Akşener İYİ Party 1 (cropped) .jpg
Party leader Meral Akşener
Secretary General Ugur Poyraz
speaker Yavuz Ağıralioğlu
founding October 25, 2017
Place of foundation Ankara
Headquarters Mustafa Kemal Mahallesi 9,
06520
Çankaya , Ankara
Alignment Liberalism
Turkish Nationalism
Kemalism
Conservatism
Pro-Europeanism
Welfare State
Colours) blue yellow
Parliament seats
39/600
Number of members 266,440 (February 4, 2020)
Website iyiparti.org.tr

The İyi Parti (short name: İYİ ; Turkish for “Good Party”) is a national-conservative to nationalist , secular - Kemalist party in Turkey . The party sees itself as an alternative to the (currently) two “big parties” right of center, the ruling Islamic-conservative Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) and the right-wing extremist Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP). The core of the party founders mainly include former MHP members who opposed the party line in the course of the constitutional referendum in 2017 or are dissatisfied with the direction of the party and are now striving for a new nationalist and Kemalist party.

The party was founded in October 2017 and is represented by 39 members in parliament (as of November 28, 2019). It acts as a sister party to the Demokrat Parti (DP). The latter was elected to parliament via the İYI list.

founding

The party was founded on October 25, 2017 in Ankara under the motto "Turkey will be good" ("Türkiye iyi olacak") . The initiator is Meral Akşener , who ran for chairmanship of the MHP in 2016, but was dismissed from the party in the same year. In the course of the 2017 referendum, she campaigned for a “no” and toured the country with her slogan “80 million times no” (80 Milyon kere Hayır) to explain her cause. Other opposition MHP members such as Koray Aydın , Yusuf Halaçoğlu or Ümit Özdağ tried to get a party chairman (or at least for a new election for this post) and campaigned for a “no”. They too were withdrawn from party membership. You are three of the co-initiators and are considered to be other key figures in the founding of the party. In addition to MHP politicians, the founding members also include politicians from the Welfare Party (RP), the Motherland Party (ANAP), the Democratic Left Party (DSP) and Akşen's former Right- Wing Party (DYP). The party's general secretary, Aytun Çıray , was previously a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP).

Akşener and other MHP politicians at an extraordinary meeting

Even before the referendum, rumors of Akşener's possible founding of a party were circulating, and they intensified around April 16, 2017. After the referendum, which the party founders strongly criticize and describe as manipulated, work began on founding the party.

A transfer of 15 MPs from the Republican People's Party (CHP) to the İyi Parti increased the number of parliamentary seats from 5 to 20. This was the subject of an agreement between the CHP and İYİ, so that İYİ would gain parliamentary group status and participate in the early elections in June 2018 is ensured. They returned to their party on May 10, 2018.

electorate

For dissatisfied voters of the ruling Justice and Recovery Party (AKP) and the Party of the Nationalist Movement (MHP), the party is supposed to provide an alternative, which as opposition party, had largely supported Erdoğan's policies without criticism. Above all, voters who are dissatisfied with the policies of the AKP and President Erdoğan are to be addressed . In addition, the MHP voters should come, who disagree with Devlet Bahçeli and his party leadership. Basically, nationalist-minded people should be addressed by this party, who in Turkey are referred to as “ center-right ” (Turkish merkez sağ ). Many supporters of the nationalist Gray Wolves also vote for the İyi Parti. Meral Akşener is also called Asena , the name of the she-wolf in Turkish mythology , based on her leadership position among the gray wolves . However, there are also voters of the Republican People's Party (CHP), as the party wants to win patriots "on both the left and the right" as voters, as Ümit Özdağ announced in an interview.

Political program

Similar to the DYP of the past century, the party is said to act more conservatively and, above all, nationalistically. The presidential system , which will come into force with the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections , is to be abolished and replaced by the parliamentary system of government . The presidential palace is to be converted into a university and the educational policy, which particularly disadvantages children and young people from Anatolia, is to be changed in this regard. The entrance exams for secondary schools and universities are to be changed and the basic education period to be increased from seven to eleven years. The measures taken after the attempted coup in 2016 criticized the party founders, who see Erdoğan and the AKP as the cause of the Gülen movement's infiltration of the state . It is personally important to Akşener to remove social and political obstacles for girls and women. Furthermore, the Alevis , the supporters of the second largest religious community in the country, are to be granted more rights, which many parties promise again and again.

Akşener at the first party congress

As part of the founding, the party members were informed of the following goals of the party:

Election results

Share of votes in the 2018 parliamentary election (by province)

Parliamentary elections

year Total votes Votes in% Seats in parliament
2018 4,990,710 10% 43

Presidential election

year Total votes Votes in% Candidate
2018 3,649,030 7.29 Meral Akşener

Party executive

Part of the party executive (front row)
# Surname position
1 Meral Akşener Party leader
2 Aytun Çıray General Secretary, party spokesman
3 Hayrettin Nuhoğlu Treasurer
4th Koray Aydın Deputy party chairman (responsible for the party structure)
5 İsmail Koncuk Deputy party chairman (responsible for legal issues and elections)
6th Kazım Ataoğlu Deputy Party Chairman (responsible for parliamentary affairs)
7th Aydın Adnan Sezgin Deputy party chairman (responsible for international affairs)
8th Şenol Bal Deputy party chairman (responsible for research and development)
9 Müsavat Dervişoğlu Deputy Party Chairman (responsible for local matters)
10 Ümit Özdağ Deputy Party Chairman (responsible for media and election advertising)
11 Berna Sukas Deputy party leader (responsible for social policy)
12 Mehmet Kavuncu Deputy Party chairman (responsible for science, industry and technology)
13 Ahmet Yücel Deputy party chairman (responsible for civil society)
14th Fatih Mehmet Şeker Deputy party chairman (responsible for education, culture and art)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current membership numbers . Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Meral Akşener partisini kurdu: İşte ilk açıklama . In: soL Haber Portalı . October 25, 2017 ( org.tr [accessed October 25, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Akşener: “Referandumda Hayır, Hayır, Hayır” . In: Yeni Çağ Gazetesi . ( com.tr [accessed October 25, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Ümit Özdağ'dan YSK'ya tepki: Tek tek yargılanacaklar . In: t24.com.tr . ( com.tr [accessed October 25, 2017]).
  5. ↑ CHP'li 15 vekil İYİ Parti'ye geçti . In: Yeni Çağ Gazetesi . ( com.tr [accessed April 22, 2018]).
  6. ↑ İYİ Parti'ye geçen 15 milletvekili CHP'ye geri döndü: Görev tamam . In: Cumhuriyet . ( com.tr [accessed on May 10, 2018]).
  7. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Opposition to Erdogan: The desire as the mother of thought. October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  8. ^ Elections in Turkey - The female lead wolf . In: Cicero Online . ( cicero.de [accessed on July 12, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Meral Akşener to launch new party on Oct 25. Retrieved on October 25, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ Reklamsız Sözcü Deneyimi. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Akşener: “Kim bana FETÖ'cü diyorsa; oğlu, damadı ya da kendisi FETÖ bağlantılıdır ” . In: Yeni Çağ Gazetesi . ( com.tr [accessed October 25, 2017]).
  12. ↑ İYİ Parti'den Alevilere özel vaatler. Retrieved October 29, 2017 (Turkish).
  13. ↑ İyi Parti hakkında bilinmesi gerekenler . In: BBC Türkçe . October 26, 2017 ( bbc.com [accessed October 27, 2017]).
  14. ↑ http://iyiparti.org.tr/baskanlik-divani .