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The Victory Party is the continuation of theAyyıldız Movement (lit.'Star and Crescent Movement') initiated by Ümit Özdağ,[28] which became a youth movement after the establishment of the party. The founding petition of the party was submitted to theMinistry of the Interior on 26 August 2021 and then the party was officially established.[29]
The party was founded by Ümit Özdağ, due to his many disagreements with other Turkish parties, including corruption allegations, the demographic effects of the rulingAKP's refugee policies (which the Victory Party calls "strategic demographic engineering"), the "anti-democratic approaches" by theİYİ Party, and his feuds with theMHP and the modernCHP. In Özdağ's words, it was organized under the name of Ayyıldız Movement with the aim of "forming the motto ofTurkish nationalism along the lines ofAtatürk" and submitted its founding petition to theMinistry of Interior on August 26, 2021, when it was officially established.[30][31]
Party leader Ümit Özdağ endorsedAnkara mayorMansur Yavaş for the2023 presidential elections,[32] although Yavaş was a member of theCHP. Yavaş stated the declaration was without his knowledge and consent, declaring he was not a candidate for president. Ümit Özdağ confirmed that his statement was not with the consent of the Mayor of Ankara, claiming "It would have been a plot if we informed Mansur Yavaş".[33][34]
On 11 March 2023, theAncestral Alliance was formed with Victory Party, Justice Party, and two other minor parties.[37] The alliance endorsedSinan Oğan as their presidential candidate in the2023 elections, who came in 3rd place in the first round.[38] Victory Party received 2.23% of the vote and failed to pass the electoral threshold. On 24 May, Özdağ and the party announced they would backKemal Kılıçdaroğlu in the second round of the elections.[39] The same day, it was revealed that there had been talks on Özdağ's appointment as Interior Minister if Kılıçdaroğlu won the election and that the parties had agreed on a seven-point memorandum of understanding.[40][41] However, the party's endorsed candidate, Sinan Oğan declared his support forRecep Tayyip Erdoğan.[42]
Upon its establishment, the party had two MPs, Ümit Özdağ andİsmail Koncuk [tr].[43] Koncuk later rejoined the İYİ Party.[44] Özdağ continued his membership until his party failed to enter parliament in 2023.[45] Ancestral Alliance was dissolved shortly after the election.[46][47]
On 5 May 2022, Ümit Özdağ made a press statement against the Interior MinisterSüleyman Soylu, who criticized him heavily in a television program, and stated that he would be in front of the Ministry of Interior building at 11:00 the next day and that he was waiting for Süleyman Soylu. Özdağ and the crowd went to the Ministry of Interior the next day, but were blocked by the police. The statements made by Özdağ in front of the Ministry, and the statements he made to Soylu increased the visibility of his party in the media.[48][49]
On 13 September 2022, a banner with the inscription "Domestic and NationalEscobar" on the Victory Party'sFatih District Directorate building and a bald and halfless head image below was hung. The Prosecutor's Office quickly removed this banner, stating that it "insulted a public official". Although it was not disclosed which public official was effectively being insulted.[50][51]
In 2023, Ümit Özdağ criticised Devlet Bahçeli and described him as "an agent". Semih Yalçın, a high ranking MHP official later said that "Ümit Özdağ, who reveals his true colors by insulting our party, our chairman, and us, for revealing his hypocrisy, insincerity and bad intentions." He criticised Ümit Özdağ's father by saying "Ümit Özdağ's father, the lateMuzaffer Özdağ [tr], left our late ChiefAlparslan Türkeş alone the day before themilitary memoir on March 12, 1971 and resigned on March 11. In other words, he had daggered his companion in the back and left. Ümit Özdağ was made a deputy by Mr. Devlet Bahçeli as 'maybe he will be a man' and important duties were assigned to him. However, he left everything and ran away, just like his father. He shot his companion in the back. It was a burden for Özdağ to work in the ranks of nationalism and the MHP; it was heavy. With the referral of the genetic heritage he carried, he threw himself into the arms of sedition, mischief and serialization at the first opportunity".[52]
^"Turkey Signals Possible Rapprochement With Syria".VOA. 26 September 2022.Archived from the original on 13 November 2022. Retrieved13 November 2022.On the other hand, thefar-right Victory Party calls for forced deportations of Syrian refugees, blaming them for the rising food prices.
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