Yeni Türkiye Partisi (2002)

Yeni Türkiye Partis (YTP) New Turkey Party
founding	2002
resolution	October 2004
Alignment	Social democratic

The Yeni Türkiye Partisi (YTP; New Turkey Party) was a short-lived political party in Turkey .

The YTP was founded when the politicians İsmail Cem (Foreign Minister) and Hüsamettin Özkan (Deputy Prime Minister) left the government of Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit in August 2002 and left his Democratic Left Party (DSP) in the course of a serious economic and political crisis . Also, the previously non-party Kemal Derviş (Minister of State for Economic Affairs) resigned from his post and initially participated in the efforts to form a new party, but then joined the Republican People's Party (CHP) on. The ambitious Istanbul local politician Mustafa Sarıgül came to the YTP for this.

The YTP tried to position itself as a modern social democratic party. But despite the popularity of its chairman Cem, it only achieved 1.15 percent in the following election . Özkan and other members then withdrew.

The YTP ran again in the local elections in March 2004 , in which they won five mayor offices. But this had to do with local events, because in some places politicians who had not been considered by the CHP or DSP instead ran on behalf of the YTP. The party's overall result was 0.22 percent.

Disappointed by these results and weakened by the serious illness of its Chairman Cem, the YTP disbanded on October 24, 2004. The remaining members joined the CHP.

The YTP of İsmail Cem should not be confused with the liberal - conservative Yeni Türkiye Partisi under Ekrem Alican , which won 13.7 percent of the vote and 65 seats in the 1961 parliamentary elections , but then steadily lost importance and finally dissolved in 1973.