Green Party Yeşiller Partisi | |
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| Abbreviation | YEŞİLLER |
| Leader | Özlem Teke Taşdemir (female spokesperson) Koray Doğan Urbarlı (male spokesperson) |
| Founded | 21 September 2020 (2020-09-21) 30 June 2002 (2002-06-30) (First incarnation) |
| Dissolved | 25 November 2012 (2012-11-25) (First incarnation) |
| Split from | Green Left Party |
| Headquarters | Ankara |
| Ideology | Green politics Ecofeminism LGBT rights |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colours | Green |
| Slogan | «Our house is burning! We will put this fire out!» (Turkish:«Evimiz yanıyor! Bu yangını söndüreceğiz!») |
| Website | |
| yesiller.org.tr | |
TheGreens Party (Turkish:Yeşiller Partisi alsoYeşiller for short) orGreen Party[1] is agreenparty inTurkey founded in 2020.[2] TheInterior Ministry blocked the party from standing in the2023 elections.[3][4]: 38
Greens Party (Turkish:Yeşiller Partisi) (website yesiller.org) was a green liberalparty in Turkey. Being the 57th political party of Turkey, it was established on 30 June 2008 after years of preparation since 2002.
Agreen party with the same name was established prior to its establishment in 1988 (its founding President was former Health MinisterCelal Ertuğ (in Turkish)). The latter was closed down in 1994, and its third and last President wasAydın Ayas, who took the eco-liberal turn for the party.
Greens maintained local branches and initiatives inIstanbul,Ankara,İzmir,Bursa,Tekirdağ, andAntalya.[5] Greens were known as theGreens of Turkey (Turkish:Türkiye'nin Yeşilleri, Yeşiller Partisi) prior to the founding of the party. The party held its first general congress on 6 June 2010.
In November 2012, it merged with theEquality and Democracy Party to form theGreens and the Left Party of the Future, YSGP for short. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices.
After the splitting,Yeşil Siyaset Meclisi was founded with the idea of founding a green party again one day. After four years of preparation, Yeşiller Partisi was founded on 21 September 2020 again with 110 founding members; 55 of these members were women and 55 were men.
In 2020, the Greens submitted documents to theMinistry of the Interior to register their status as a political party, so their name could be written on ballot papers. In 2021 the Greens filed a lawsuit against the ministry over the delay in providing the receipt stipulated in the Political Parties Law.[6][7][8] In February 2023, the Ankara 8th Administrative Court ruled that the Interior Ministry must issue the receipt.[9]
The party endorsedKemal Kılıçdaroğlu for the2023 Turkish presidential election.[10] For theparliamentary elections, on the other hand, the party established an electoral alliance with theWorkers' Party of Turkey (TİP), and its spokerpersons, Özlem Taşdemir Teke and Koray Doğan Urbarlı, decided to run as candidates on TİP's lists.[11]
Regarding political associations, the 8th Administrative Court of Ankara found unlawful the stance of the Ministry of Interior, which prevented the establishment of the Green Party by not providing a 'received' certificate for the application and decided to stay the execution of the process. The Court of Appeal has since removed the stay of execution decision regarding the Ministry of Interior's act, the Green Party is again prevented from being established and the case is still pending. The file for the establishment of the Humanity and Freedom Party is pending before the Constitutional Court.
