Saadet Partisi

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Saadet Partisi
Happiness Party logo
Party leader Karamollaoğlu Temple
Secretary General Tacettin Çetinkaya
Emergence After the Fazilet Partisi
founding July 20, 2001 by Necmettin Erbakan
Headquarters Ankara , Turkey
Youth organization Genç Saadet
newspaper Millî Gazete
Alignment Millî Görüş ,
Sunni Islamism ,
Conservatism ,
Pan-Islamism ,
Anti-Zionism
Colours) Red White
Parliament seats
2/600
Number of members 220,830 (February 4, 2020)
Website www.saadet.org.tr

The Saadet Partisi (short name: SAADET ; Turkish for "Party of Happiness") is an Islamist political party in Turkey and was founded on July 21, 2001. It is the political party of a part of the Millî Görüş movement , whose German branch organization Islamic Community Millî Görüş (IGMG) is under observation by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution . The central figure of the party is the late former Prime Minister of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan .

The party, like the more moderate Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), is a successor to the Fazilet Partisi (FP), which was banned the day after the SAADET was founded. The mouthpiece of the Saadet Partisi is the Millî Gazete .

The party's emblem consists of a crescent moon and five five-pointed stars . The big star stands for esteem, reputation and honor (Turkish Şeref ). The two medium-sized stars stand for justice and legal awareness, welfare and prosperity. The two little stars symbolize love, tolerance, brotherhood and peace, as well as human rights and freedoms.

Party platform and ideology

In her party program she defines secularism as neutrality or non-interference by the state in religious matters. The SAADET describes the politics of the USA there as “bloody occupation policy” and “racist imperialism”. The European Union , whose attitude towards the values ​​of the Turkish nation is anyway unacceptable, is also serving this racist imperialism according to the program. Accordingly, the party rejects Turkey's accession to the EU. The Saadet Partisi claims a leadership role for Turkey. Turkey should no longer be a satellite state , but a leading power. She also calls for Turkey's permanent membership in the United Nations Security Council . The German Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that the party of happiness is striving for the abolition of secularism and an Islamic order encompassing all areas of life and society. According to statements by the party's deputy chairman, Mete Gündoğan, the movement is aiming to establish Greater Turkey.

The party's website has conspiracy theories on Zionists , Freemasons , CIA and Mossad :

Pointing out that Zionism is exploiting the world economy, Erbakan declared, 'They charge interest on every bread they buy . You think you are just buying bread and you don't even realize that you are paying interest to Zionism. Even the bakeries were started up with money from Zionism. This is how Zionism absorbed the power of money. With the help of the Masonic organizations, he also appropriated the human resources. With the help of both powers he has been working for about 5,700 [sic] years to found a Greater Israel and rule the world. '"

- Saadet Partisi website :

The Internet edition of Millî Gazete , an Islamist daily newspaper affiliated with Saadet Partisi , denies the Holocaust and the print edition of November 20, 2003 claims that Israel wants to form a new Israeli state in northern Iraq and occupy southeastern Turkey. In the same issue it says:

Logo at the Zalmahmut Pascha Mosque in Eyup

“Because 'Islamist terror' is a […] joint product of America and Israel. [...] Every time you scratch something on the surface of the terrorist attacks, the words 'Made in Pentagon' or 'Made in Mossad' grin at us. "

- Millî Gazete

Election results

In the parliamentary elections on October 3, 2002, the Saadet Partisi received 2.49% of the votes cast and failed because of the 10 percent threshold . Your predecessor party received 15.41% of the vote in 1999 .

In the regional elections in 2004 she won 3.97% of the votes nationwide and thus provided mayors in 12 of the 923 districts. In the parliamentary elections in 2007 she received 2.3% of the vote and thus failed to make it into the Turkish parliament again .

After the death of party chairman Necmettin Erbakan on February 27, 2011, Mustafa Kamalak was elected chairman for the upcoming election . The party got 1.24% of the vote, making it the fourth largest party. At the party meeting immediately after the election, Kamalak was confirmed as chairman.

In the 2015 election , the Saadet party worked with the Great Unity Party (BBP) as a coalition partner and went into the elections. They received 2.06% of the vote and thus became the fifth strongest force. In the new election on November 1, 2015 , the party received 0.68%.

Islamic Holdings

There were repeated reports of contacts between functionaries of the Saadet Partisi and Millî Görüş with the so-called “Islamic Holdings ”. Small investors are advertised in mosques or during home visits. The dealings are based on good faith. Often the investors have no legal title and lose their savings. Complaints from those affected were also heard in German courts.

Representation of Saadet Partisi in Germany

The German representation of Saadet Partisi was founded in mid-2013.

Structures were created by 2015 in, among others, Württemberg, Swabia, Bavaria, Hesse, Düsseldorf, Ruhr-Nord, Hanover, Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current membership numbers . Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Party program in Turkish ( Memento of March 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2004 ( Memento of February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (page 212)
  4. ^ Website of the SP ( Memento of May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 7, 2007.
  5. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2003 Hamburg (page 60)
  6. ↑ Millî Gazete, August 22, 2006
  7. ↑ Brochure from the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution
  8. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2003 Hamburg
  9. ↑ Fact (magazine) of the MDR ( Memento from December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ According to "time"
  11. ↑ According to "Spiegel"
  12. ^ Two judgments ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2013
  14. ↑ https://www.verfassungsschutz-bw.de/,Lde/Startseite/Arbeitsfelder/_Saadet+Partisi_+baut+Strukturen+in+Deutschland+aus