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Political party in Turkey
The
Democratic People's Party
(
Turkish
:
Demokratik Halk Partisi
, DEHAP) was a pro-
Kurdish
[1]
political party
in
Turkey
.
Founding and political context
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DEHAP was founded 24 October 1997.
[2]
It was the continuation of the
People's Democracy Party
(HADEP), which was banned in March 2003 by the
Constitutional Court
on the grounds that it supported the
Kurdistan Workers Party
PKK).
[3]
On the 26th of March, 2003, 35 Mayors who were part of the HADEP joined the DEHAP.
[4]
The party had three chairmen. The party was at first presided by Veysi Aydin, who was elected on the parties first ordinary congress in January 1998. After his membership was revoked by the Turkish
Supreme Court
, he was replaced by
Mehmet Abbaso?lu
at the first extraordinary congress of the party in May 1998.
[2]
In the second extraordinary party congress in June 2003,
Tuncer Bakırhan
was elected its president.
[2]
Electoral results
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At its last
legislative
elections
in November 2002, the party won 6.2% of the popular vote, thus not reaching the 10% threshold for gaining representation in the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
. For the local elections in March 2004,
[5]
the DEHAP, together with the
Labour Party
(EMEP), the
Freedom and Solidarity Party
(ODP), and the
Socialist Democracy Party
(SDP), entered an electoral alliance under the name of the
Social Democrat People's Party
(SHP)
[4]
Following the elections, 56 elected mayors returned to the DEHAP.
[4]
It signed a declaration which demanded the PKK to lay down its arms together with 150 Turkish intellectuals.
[6]
Merger and dissolution
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On the 17th of August, 2005, DEHAP announced its merger with the Democratic Society Movement (DTH) founded by
Leyla Zana
to form the
Democratic Society Party
(DTP).
[7]
In November 2005, it announced that it has dissolved itself.
- ^
Emrullah Uslu,
The Transformation of Kurdish Political Identity in Turkey: Impact of Modernization, Democratization and Globalization
, ProQuest, 2009,
ISBN
978-1-109-05548-1
,
p. 73.
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permanent dead link
]
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b
c
"1990'dan Bugune, HEP'ten DTP'ye Kurtlerin Zorlu Siyaset Mucadelesi"
.
Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi
. Retrieved
2020-10-11
.
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Moghadam 2007, 86.
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a
b
c
Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for.
"Refworld | Turkey: The situation and treatment of members, supporters and sympathizers of leftist parties, particularly the People's Democratic Party (HADEP) and Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) (January 2003 ? September 2004)"
.
Refworld
. Retrieved
2020-04-10
.
- ^
Carkoglu, Ali (2011-09-30).
"TURKISH LOCAL ELECTIONS OF MARCH 28, 2004: A PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2011-09-30
. Retrieved
2020-04-10
.
- ^
Fend, Walter-Josef (2015).
Kurds, History - Religion - Language - Politics
(PDF)
. Wolfgang Taucher, Mathias Vogl, Peter Webinger Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. pp. 59?60.
ISBN
978-3-9503643-6-1
.
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Marcus 2007, xi
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