Yeşiller Partisi

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Greens Party
Party leader Yüksel Selek (female chair)
Ümit Şahin (male chair)
founding 1988
June 30, 2008
Place of foundation Ankara
resolution November 25, 2012
Headquarters İstiklal Cad Balo Sok No 21/1 Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Alignment Green politics
Colours) green
International connections GG (observer)
European party EGP (observer)
Website www.yesiller.org

The Yeşiller Partisi ( German  Green Party , also Yeşiller for short - the Greens ) was a political party in Turkey .

A green party of the same name was founded in 1988, but dissolved again in 1994. Twenty years after its first founding, the party was re-established as the 57th in Turkey on June 30, 2008 after years of preparation (since 2002) - following the traditions of 1988. Turkey's Greens had local groups and initiatives in Istanbul , Ankara , Izmir , Bursa , Tekirdağ and Antalya .

The Greens were known as the Greens of Turkey ( Yeşiller Türkiye in Turkish ) before the party was founded. The party held its first general congress on June 6, 2010.

One of the founding members is the musician İlkay Akkaya , a prominent member is Birsel Lemke .

The party merged on November 25, 2012 with the left-wing Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi to form Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi .

Principles

The party advocates the following ten principles:

  1. Adaptation to nature
  2. sustainability
  3. Global fight against pollution
  4. Rejection of male guardianship
  5. Rejection of violence
  6. Direct democracy
  7. Locality instead of globalization
  8. Balanced participation
  9. Freedom of life
  10. Maintaining diversity

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Green Party - Turkey ( Memento from October 14, 2006 in the web archive archive.today )