Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası

Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (SCF) Free Republican Party
Party leader	Ali Fethi Okyar
Secretary General	Mehmet Nuri Conker
founding	August 12, 1930 by Ali Fethi Okyar
resolution	17th November 1930
Alignment	Economic liberalism Republicanism Laicism Turkish nationalism

The Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası or SCF ( German  Free Republican Party ) was a political party founded by Ali Fethi Okyar in the early years of the Turkish Republic . It was founded in the idea of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to introduce a multi-party democracy in Turkey and was after the Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası ( Progressive Republican Party ) from 1924 to 1925 the second opposition party to the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ( Republican People's Party , CHP).

Party office in Samsun

history

The Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası was founded on August 12, 1930 by Ali Fethi Okyar . On October 5, she took part in the first democratic multi-party elections for the Kemalist government; in this first local election in 1930 she received a considerable partial success. The rival ruling party, however, accused the SCF of targeting allies with ethno- religious minorities , Kurds , religious conservatives, foreigners and supporters of the reintroduction of the Ottoman system . In Constantinople , which had 42 seats, the SCF placed five Greeks , two Armenians and two Jews . After allegations of election fraud, it disbanded on November 15, 1930. The introduction of the multi-party system was postponed by 15 years when the first opposition party was re-established in 1945.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Çetin Yetkin, Ataturk'ün Başarısız Demokrasi Devrimi: Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası, Toplumsal Dönüşüm Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1997
2. ↑ ^{a b} Cemil Koçak, "  Parliament Membership during the Single-Party System in Turkey (1925-1945)  ", European Journal of Turkish Studies , 3 (2005)
3. ↑ Soner Çaǧaptay, Islam, secularism, and nationalism in modern Turkey: who is a Turk? , Taylor & Francis (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics), 2006, p. 42