The Big Three (The main political parties of Turkey)
Other national parties.
Party of National Virtues (Ulusal Fazilet Partisi)
Founded: 1998
Ideology: Islamic Conservatism, Pan-Turkism, Neo-Ottomanism, Anti-Communism.
Political position: Ultra right (Turkey), Far right (Internationale).
Youth Wing:
Genç Yeniçeri
General Description: The extreme nationalist party, known in the people as "Erdogan's gang". It arose as a union of marginal organizations of fundamentalist and right-wing nature. Declare themselves "heirs of the Ottomans" - which causes irritation in the overwhelming majority of the population (because they are reactionary to both the Kemalist and socialist revolutions).
Capital Punishment: Promote the use of the death penalty for all serious crimes.
Civil Defense: Mandatory military training for boys. Exclusion of women from the Civil Defense programs.
Cultural Stance: Islamic Fundamentalists; They demand strict observance of Sharia law.
Defense: Strong Turkish Army, to protect the interests of the state.
Drug Policy: Absolutely against.
Economy: Considerable scaling back of the central planning, including the privatization of the automotive, aircraft, construction and steel industries; remains in favour of keeping defense nationalized .
Education: Revision of educational standards. Revival of private and parochial schools.
Environment: the UFP considers efforts to limits climate change and ecological devastation to be harmful to the communities' economic well-being
Foreign Aid: Consider such wastes harmful to the economy.
Foreign Alliances: Break the relationship with the "red". Construction of alliances with countries "entering the Turkish sphere of interest." Support Islamist and nationalist movements in the Turkic-speaking regions of the USSR, for "the liberation of fraternal peoples from the tyranny of the Red Atheists."
Health Policy: Privatization of state and provincial owned hospitals and treatment clinics.
Immigration: Closed borders.
National Policy: One and indivisible Turkey, as the state of the peoples professing Islam.
Social Welfare: The party considers the national policy of supporting rural and urban communal living projects to be detrimental to the cooperative sectors of the housing and construction industry and advocates some restrictions on the provision of welfare.
Taxation: Has supported the implementation of a sales and income tax.
Trade: Free trade.
Reformist National Party (Reformcu Ulusal Partisi)
Founded: 1984
Ideology: Kemalism, Corporatism, Nationalism (Anatolism), Neoconservatism.
Political position: Far right (Turkey), Right-centrist (Internationale).
Youth Wing:
Atatürk'ün çocukları
General Description: Right-wing Kemalist Party, oriented towards Europe. They consider themselves "the only heirs of the Atatürk case" and "keepers of the traditions of the Turkish statehood."
Capital Punishment: Supports use for severe crimes, such as serial murder, rape, and treason
Civil Defense: Supports training and watch programs in the event of an invasion
Cultural Stance: Ardent opponents of the Cultural Leap. They support the achievements of Turkey in the field of women's emancipation, adequately loyal to sexual minorities.
Defense: Strong Turkish Army, to protect the interests of the state.
Drug Policy: Legalization of light drugs for medical needs.
Economy: Promote corporate welfare and pro-capitalist "business unions" to subtly orient markets, creating a quasi-corporatist system of government and large private enterprises controlling the economy.
Education: Combination of indpendent schools, parochial schools, and government back school.
Environment: The RUP would rather use incentives to encourage more private means of seeking peace with the planet.
Foreign Aid: Consider such wastes harmful to the economy.
Foreign Alliances: Break the relationship with the "red". Rapprochement with the Alliance of Free States and the European Continental System.
Health Policy: Privatization of state and provincial owned hospitals and treatment clinics.
Immigration: Open borders for the European Continental System.
National Policy: Assimilation of national minorities in order to strengthen the Turkish state.
Social Welfare: The party considers the national policy of supporting rural and urban communal living projects to be detrimental to the cooperative sectors of the housing and construction industry and advocates some restrictions on the provision of welfare.
Taxation: Supports basic welfare, supported by basic universal income.
Trade: Autarky
Party of Justice (Adalet Partisi)
Founded: 1980
Ideology: Big tent Islamic socialism.
Political position: Left-centrist (Turkey), Left (Internationale).
Youth Wing:
Genç İslam Demokratları
General Description: The party representing the interests of Muslims in the government.
Capital Punishment: Universally opposed
Civil Defense: Universally Opposed
Cultural Stance: Different factions support different points of view - from neoconservative to radical.
Defense: Reduction of the army. The demilitarization of Turkish society.
Drug Policy: Rehabilitation for hard drug users, legalization for soft drug
Economy: Status quo
Education: Universal free education. Focuses on the development of Muslim universities.
Environment: Strongly advocates regulations to deter the pollution problem and climate change
Foreign Aid: Aid to developing nations, capitalist or communist, though opposes aid to dictatorships, especially Rhodesia.
Foreign Alliances: Proponents of detente between the blocs.
Health Policy: Universal free medicine.
Immigration: Open borders.
National Policy: Unification of the peoples of Turkey around Islam. Broad autonomy for minorities.
Social Welfare: They support the Turkish welfare state.
Taxation: The AP favors taxing socially destructive activities as part of its overall theme of social justice.
Trade: Fair trade
Green Left Party (Yeşil Sol Parti)
Founded: 2008
Ideology: Social-Ecology, Communalism (Fractions: Anarcho-Collectivism).
Political position: Far Left (Turkey), Ultra-Left (Internationale)
Youth Wing:
Ekolojik Öğrenci Birliği
General Description: A relatively young but fast-growing radical party.
Capital Punishment: Universally opposed
Civil Defense: Universally Opposed
Cultural Stance: Liberterian; the YSP is a strong advocate of free love, free religion (and strong secularism), anti-racism, pro-feminism, and pro-LGBTQ policy and has argued successfully for polygamous civil unions.
Defense: Reduction of the army. The demilitarization of Turkish society.
Drug Policy: Total decriminalization, combined with awareness programs and programs to combat addiction.
Economy: Strongly in favor of participatory planning, though central planning to maintain ecological standards is often supported.
Education: The party advocates increased local control of educational policy, in keeping with the party’s strong support for participatory democracy.
Environment: Strongest advocate for the environment; strongly supports any efforts to curb climate change and halt continued pollution.
Foreign Aid: The YSP advocates using foreign aid to promote ecologically sound economic policy in developing socialist nations.
Foreign Alliances: the biggest proponents of genuine socialist internationalism.
Health Policy: The YSP supports public policy initiatives to promote healthier eating, as well as promoting exercise for both students and workers.
Immigration: Open borders.
National Policy: Full revision of the national policy. Transition to "democratic confederalism." Turkey's redeployment to Anatolia. Refusal of the state language. Transition from national to regional identity.
Social Welfare: The YSP has advocating using social welfare policy to promote ecological sustainability, such as massive renovation programs in public housing projects to reduce their ecological footprint.
Taxation: The YSP has supported the institution of a carbon tax to promote sustainable economic policy.
Trade: The YSP prefers to advocate ecologically sustainable production both within and abroad, advocating the implementation of taxes of products that fail to meet environmental standards.