List of political parties in Turkey

Various party flags ahead of the 2009 local elections in Şile ; most visible CHP (oldest Turkish party), DSP and AKP (current ruling party)

The list of political parties in Turkey provides an overview of the current landscape in Turkey. It lists parties that were newly founded or re-established after 1954, which continue their activities officially until today or have been banned.

Registered parties

Parties participating in parliamentary elections

Parties that took part in the 2018 parliamentary elections :

Political party	Alignment	Chairman
Justice and Development Party (AK PARTİ)	Islamic - conservative , neo-Ottoman	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Republican People's Party (CHP)	social democratic , Kemalist	Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Democratic Party of the Peoples (HDP)	democratic-socialist , pro- Kurdish	Mithat Sancar and Pervin Buldan
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)	right-wing extremist , nationalist	Devlet Bahçeli
Good Party (İYİ PARTİ)	nationalist , Kemalist	Meral Akşener
Fatherland Party (VATAN PARTİSİ)	left nationalist	Dogu Perinçek
Bliss Party (SAADET)	Islamist	Karamollaoğlu Temple
Great Unity Party (BBP)	right-wing extremist , Islamist	Yalçın Topçu
Democratic Party (DP)	liberal - conservative	Gültekin Uysal
Free Cause Party (HÜDA PAR)	Islamist , pro-Kurdish	Ishak Sağlam

Parties represented in the current Grand National Assembly of Turkey

→ see Grand National Assembly of Turkey # Current composition

Other parties

List of political terms in Turkish (unless otherwise stated):
Cumhuriyet	republic
Parti	Political party
Democrasi	democracy
democracy	democratically
Halk	People
Devrim	revolution
Birlik	Unity, union, union
Ulus, Millet	nation
Ulusal, Milli	National
Milliyetçi	Nationalist, nationalist
Sosyalist	Socialist, socialist
Communist	Communist, communist
Toplum	society

Party name (abbreviation, date of establishment, chairman)

Anavatan Partisi (ANAP / ANAVATAN, May 20, 1983, İbrahim Çelebi )
Anayol Partisi (AYP, May 5, 1994, Gürcan Başer )
Bağımsız Cumhuriyet Partisi (BCP, July 24, 2002, Mümtaz Soysal )
Büyük Adalet Partisi (BAP, April 12, 1995, Mehmet Beşir Bilgiç )
Büyük Turan Hareketi Partisi ( TURAN , July 2, 2014, Varol Esen )
Cumhuriyetçi Demokrasi Partisi (CDP, July 19, 2002, Yekta Güngör Özden )
Cumhuriyetçi Democrat Türkiye Partisi (CDTP, September 3, 2003), Serap Gülhan
Çözüm Partisi (ÇP, December 25, 2001, Nazım Kocaman )
Democrat Halk Partisi (DHP, December 15, 1999, Mahmut İhsan Özgen )
Democrat Türkiye Partisi (DTP, January 7, 1997, Sema Küçüksöz )
Devrimci Sosyalist İşçi Partisi (DSİP, April 25, 1997, Şevket Doğan Tarkan )
Eşitlik Partisi (EP, May 25, 2001, Bektaş Çelebi )
Gönül Birliği Yeşiller Partisi (GBYP, November 3, 2000, Eşref Yazıcıoğlu )
Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi (HAK-PAR, February 11, 2002, Abdülmelik Fırat )
Hür Dava Partisi (Hüda Par, December 17, 2012, Mehmet Hüseyin Yılmaz )
Lider Türkiye Partisi (LTP, September 3, 2001, Mustafa Özman )
Millet Partisi (MP, November 22, 1992, Aykut Edibali )
Milliyetçi Türkiye Partisi (MTP, November 24, 2011, Ahmet Yılmaz )
Ötüken Birliği Partisi (ÖTÜKEN, December 20, 2017, Mehmet Hakan Semerci )
Özgür Toplum Partisi (ÖTP, June 6, 2003, Ahmet Turan Demir )
Sağduyu Partisi (SP, September 4, 2002, Mehmet Yücel Ağargün )
Son Çağrı Partisi (SÇP, August 29, 2002, Çetin Sakaoğlu )
Sosyal Demokrat Partisi (SDP, November 29, 2001, Nihat Demir )
Sosyalist Birlik Hareketi (SBH, August 5, 1999, Nihat Çağlı )
Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi (SDP, August 28, 2002)
Toplumcu Demokratik Parti (TDP, January 28, 2002, Sema Pişkinsüt )
Türkiye Adalet Partisi (TAP, April 12, 1995, Mehmet Yorgancıoğlu )
Türkiye Özürlüsü ile Mutludur (TÖM, July 29, 1996, Murat Dilmen )
Türkiye Sosyalist İşçi Partisi (TSİP, January 3, 1993, Mehmet Sümbül )
Alternatif Parti , (October 23, 1998)
Ulusal Muhtariyet Partisi (UMP, August 13, 2001, Fehmi Öztürk )
Varlığımız Partisi (VARLIK, May 11, 2001, Köksal Satır )
Yurt Partisi (YP, March 14, 2002, Sadettin Tantan )
Yüce Diriliş Partisi (YDP, April 23, 2007, Sezai Karakoç )
Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi (November 25, 2012)

Prohibited Parties

No.	Political party	Prohibition date
1	Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Progressive Republican Party)	June 5, 1925
2	Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party)	17th November 1930
3	Millet Partisi (Nations Party)	January 26, 1954
4th	Democrat Parti (Democratic Party)	June 20, 1960
5	İşçi-Çiftçi Partisi (Workers-Peasants Party)	15th October 1968
6th	Millî Nizam Partisi (National Order Party )	20th May 1971
7th	Türkiye İleri Ülke Partisi (Progressive Turkey State Party)	June 29, 1971
8th	Türkiye İşçi Partisi (Labor Party of Turkey)	20th July 1971
9	Büyük Anadolu Partisi (Party of Great Anatolia)	December 19, 1972 November 24, 1992
10	Türkiye Emekçi Partisi (Labor Party of Turkey)	May 8, 1980
11	Huzur Partisi (Peace Party )	October 25, 1983
12	Türkiye Birleşik Komünist Partisi (United Communist Party of Turkey)	July 16, 1991
13	Halk Partisi (People's Party)	September 24, 1991
14th	Sosyalist Parti (Socialist Party)	July 10, 1992
15th	Halkın Emek Partisi (Labor Party of the People)	July 14, 1993
16	Özgürlük Demokrasi Partisi (Party of Free Democracy)	November 23, 1993
17th	Sosyalist Türkiye Partisi (Party of Socialist Turkey)	November 30, 1993
18th	Yeşiller Partisi (Party of the Greens)	February 10, 1994
19th	Demokrasi Partisi (Democracy Party)	June 16, 1995
20th	Democrat Parti-2 (Democratic Party-2)	September 13, 1994
21st	Sosyalist Birlik Partisi (Socialist Unity Party)	July 19, 1995
22nd	Demokrasi ve Değişim Partisi (Party of Democracy and Change)	March 19, 1996
23	Emek Partisi (Labor Party)	February 14, 1997
24	Diriliş Partisi (Party of Awakening)	February 18, 1997
25th	Refah Partisi (Welfare Party)	January 16, 1998
26th	Democracy Kitle Partisi (Democratic Mass Party)	February 26, 1999
27	Fazilet Partisi (Virtue Party)	June 22, 2001
28	Halkın Demokrasi Partisi (Party of People's Democracy)	March 13, 2003
29	Democracy Toplum Partisi (Democratic Society Party)	December 11, 2009

Illegal active parties

In addition to nationalist or Islamist groups, illegal, left-wing party structures have been developing since the early 1970s - many of them armed.

There are also currently some organizations that see themselves as parties, most of which fulfill the criminal offense of “armed gang” in Turkey and are prohibited. This includes the following in particular:

the militant fighting Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) ,
the Maoist Turkish Communist Party / Marxist-Leninists (TKP / ML ), which also has an armed arm,
the Maoist Communist Party (MKP) , which emerged as a split from the TKP / ML and which also has an armed arm,
the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front (DHKP-C)

as well as some smaller parties.

Various party flags; most visible the AKP, the MHP and the Saadet

Previous parties

Barış Partisi (BP, Alevi), 1996–1999
Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi was merged into HDP and DBP in 2014
Cumhuriyetçi Güven Partisi (CGP, previously Milli Güven Partisi , Turhan Feyzioğlu ), 1967–1981
Cumhuriyetçi Parti (CP, Kemal Satır ), 1972–1973
Democracy Sol Halk Partisi (DSHP, November 2009, Rahşan Ecevit ), was merged into CHP in 2010
Sosyal Demokrasi Partisi , 1983–1985
Social democrat Halkçı Parti , 1985–1995, went into the CHP
Social Democrat Halk Partisi (SHP, May 24, 2002–2010, Murat Karayalçın )
Türkiye Partisi (TP, May 2009, Abdüllatif Şener ), disbanded in 2012.
Türkiye Birlik Partisi (TBP, Alevi ), 1966–1981
Türkiye (Resmi) Komünist Partisi , 1920–1921
Yeni Parti was absorbed into HEPAR in 2012
Yeni Türkiye Partisi (1961) (YTP), Ekrem Alican , 1961–1973
Yeni Türkiye Partisi (2002) (YTP), July 22, 2002, İsmail Cem , joined the CHP in 2004.