Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, the Glossary
The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (Partiya Wekhevî û Demokrasiya Gelan; Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, abbreviated as DEM Party) is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey.[1]
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- Alter-globalization
- Feminist parties in Turkey
- HEP tradition
- Kurdish political parties in Turkey
- Left-wing politics in Turkey
- Peoples' Democratic Congress
- Secularism in Turkey
- Socialist parties in Kurdistan
- Socialist parties in Turkey
Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan (born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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Adana (electoral district)
Adana is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
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Alevism
Alevism (Alevilik;; Ələvilik) is a heterodox and syncretic Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Islamic teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, who supposedly taught the teachings of the Twelve Imams, whilst incorporating some traditions from Tengrism.
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Ankara
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).
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Atatürk Boulevard
Atatürk Boulevard (Atatürk Bulvarı) is the most important avenue in Ankara, Turkey.
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Çankaya District
Çankaya is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey.
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Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar
Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar (born 1976) is a Turkish politician who is co-leader of the Party of Greens and the Left Future.
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İbrahim Akın (politician)
İbrahim Akın is a Turkish politician who is co-leader of the Party of Greens and the Left Future.
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İmralı
İmralı is a small Turkish prison island in the south of the Sea of Marmara, west of the Armutlu-Bozburun peninsula within Bursa Province.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Belde
Belde (literally "town", also known as kasaba) means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish.
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Bianet
Bianet (acronym for lit) is a news agency based in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.
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Centre-left politics
Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre and broadly conform with progressivism.
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Court of Cassation (Turkey)
The Court of Cassation, officially called the Supreme Court of Appeals of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Yargıtay Başkanlığı – Yargıtay for short), is the last instance for reviewing verdicts given by courts of criminal and civil justice in Turkey.
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Ethnic party
An ethnic party is a political party that overtly presents itself as the champion of one ethnic group or sets of ethnic groups.
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Federalism
Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.
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Gazete Duvar
Duvar is an online news portal which focuses mainly on Turkish politics.
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Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament (Meclis or Parlamento), is the unicameral Turkish legislature.
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Green politics
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.
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Imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on İmralı Island in the Sea of Marmara since February 1999.
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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (also referred to by his initials KK; born 17 December 1948) is a Turkish politician and former leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP).
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Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance
The Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance (Kürt Özgürlük ve Demokrasi İttifakı, KÖDİ; Tifaqa Azadî û Demokrasiyê ya Kurd, TADK) is an alliance of Kurdish political parties in Turkey founded on 3 April 2023 ahead of the 2023 Turkish general election. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Alliance are political parties established in 2023 and Turkish political party stubs.
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Kurdish nationalism
Kurdish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia and Turkey.
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Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey
The Kurdish Political Movement or the Kurdish Liberation Movement, refers to the movement that seeks to realize the political demands of Kurdish people living in the geocultural region called Kurdistan in the lands of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, such as education in their native language, self-determination, autonomy or an independent state. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey are Kurdish political parties in Turkey and left-wing politics in Turkey.
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Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the current PKK–Turkey conflict.
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Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Kurdistan Workers' Party are Socialist parties in Turkey.
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Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
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Kurds in Turkey
The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey.
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Labour and Freedom Alliance
The Labour and Freedom Alliance (Turkish: Emek ve Özgürlük İttifakı, Kurdish: Hevkariya Ked û Azadiyê) is a left-wing electoral alliance in Turkey, formed by Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Parti), Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP), Labour Party (EMEP), Labourist Movement Party (EHP), Social Freedom Party (TÖP) and Federation of Socialist Assemblies (SMF). Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Labour and Freedom Alliance are left-wing politics in Turkey and Socialist parties in Turkey.
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Labour Party (Turkey)
The Labour Party (in Turkish: Emek Partisi, EMEP) is a communist party in Turkey. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Labour Party (Turkey) are Peoples' Democratic Congress.
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Labourist Movement Party
The Labourist Movement Party (Emekçi Hareket Partisi, EHP) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Turkey. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Labourist Movement Party are Turkish political party stubs.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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Left-wing populism
Left-wing populism, also called social populism, is a political ideology that combines left-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes.
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List of municipalities in Turkey
The following lists give the municipalities of Turkey within each province.
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Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey
There are 81 provinces in Turkey (il).
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Minority rights
Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group.
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Nation Alliance (Turkey)
The Nation Alliance (Millet İttifakı), abbreviated as NATION (MİLLET), was an electoral and political alliance in Turkey, made up of six opposition parties to contest the 2023 Turkish general election against its main rival, the People's Alliance.
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The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic European political party. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and party of European Socialists are centre-left parties in Europe.
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Party of the Greens and the Left Future
Party of Greens and the Left Future (Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi, YSGP), abbreviated as Green Left Party (Yeşil Sol Parti, YSP), is a green and left-libertarian party in Turkey. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and party of the Greens and the Left Future are Alter-globalization, Anti-capitalist political parties, Direct democracy parties, eco-socialist parties, Feminist parties in Turkey, left-wing parties, left-wing politics in Turkey, Peoples' Democratic Congress, political parties established in 2023, political parties in Turkey, secularism in Turkey, Socialist parties in Turkey and Turkish political party stubs.
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People's Democracy Party
People's Democracy Party (Halkın Demokrasi Partisi, HADEP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and People's Democracy Party are HEP tradition.
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Peoples' Democratic Congress
The Peoples' Democratic Congress (Halkların Demokratik Kongresi, HDK) is a union of numerous left-wing political movements, organisations and parties in Turkey that aims to fundamentally recreate Turkish politics and represent oppressed, exploited individuals who face ethnic, religious or gender discrimination.
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Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
The Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkish: Halkların Demokratik Partisi, acronymized as HDP; Kurdish: Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) are Feminist parties in Turkey, HEP tradition, Kurdish nationalist political parties, Kurdish political parties in Turkey, Peoples' Democratic Congress, political parties in Turkey, secularism in Turkey, Socialist parties in Kurdistan and Socialist parties in Turkey.
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Provinces of Turkey
Turkiye is divided into 81 provinces (il).
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014.
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Regionalism (politics)
Regionalism is a political ideology that seeks to increase the political power, influence and self-determination of the people of one or more subnational regions.
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Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi,, acronymized as CHP) is a Kemalist and social democratic political party in Turkey. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Republican People's Party are centre-left parties in Asia, centre-left parties in Europe, political parties in Turkey and secularism in Turkey.
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Rudaw Media Network, is a major media broadcaster in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
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Secularism
Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion.
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Secularism in France
('secularism') is the constitutional principle of secularism in France.
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Selahattin Demirtaş
Selahattin Demirtaş (born 10 April 1973) is a Turkish politician and author of Zaza origin.
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Siirt (electoral district)
Siirt is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
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The Social Freedom Party (Toplumsal Özgürlük Partisi, TÖP) is a political party in Turkey, founded on 9 March 2020. Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party and Social Freedom Party are Peoples' Democratic Congress and Turkish political party stubs.
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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
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Tülay Hatimoğulları Oruç
Tülay Hatimoğulları Oruç (born 1977) is a Turkish linguistics rights activist and politician.
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Tuncer Bakırhan
Tuncer Bakırhan (born 1970, Susuz, Kars) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent and current co-leader of the Kurdish minority interests party DEM Party.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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Women in Turkey
Women got full political participation rights in Turkey, including the right to vote and the right to run for office locally in 1930 (nationwide in 1934).
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2018 Turkish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Turkey on 24 June 2018 as part of general elections, with presidential elections taking place on the same day.
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2021–2024 Peoples' Democratic Party closure case
The Peoples' Democratic Party closure case refers to a legal procedure during which the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is threatened with closure while hundreds of its politicians face a political ban for five years.
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2023 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 14 May 2023, combining presidential elections and parliamentary elections.
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2023 Turkish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Turkey on 14 May 2023, alongside presidential elections, to elect all 600 members of the Grand National Assembly. The incoming members formed the 28th Parliament of Turkey. The elections had originally been scheduled to take place on June 18, but the government moved them forward by a month to avoid coinciding with the university exams, the Hajj pilgrimage and the start of the summer holidays.
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2024 Turkish local elections
Local elections in Turkey took place throughout the country's 81 provinces on 31 March 2024.
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See also
Alter-globalization
- Alter-globalization
- Anti-capitalism
- Catalunya en Comú
- Cerna (political organization)
- Democracy in Motion
- Direct Action: An Ethnography
- Encontro Irmandiño
- European Social Forum
- Forum des peuples
- Génération.s
- Global citizens movement
- Global justice movement
- José Bové
- Keny Arkana
- La France Insoumise
- Le Monde diplomatique
- Left Party (France)
- New Anticapitalist Party
- Option citoyenne
- Party of the Greens and the Left Future
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Québec solidaire
- Socialisti.sk
- Union des forces progressistes (Quebec)
- World Social Forum
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Feminist parties in Turkey
- National Women's Party of Turkey
- Party of the Greens and the Left Future
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Socialist Refoundation Party
HEP tradition
- Democracy Party (Turkey)
- Democratic People's Party (Turkey)
- Democratic Regions Party
- Democratic Society Party
- Freedom and Democracy Party
- Freedom and Equality Party
- HEP tradition
- Peace and Democracy Party
- People's Democracy Party
- People's Labour Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
Kurdish political parties in Turkey
- Communist Party of Kurdistan (Turkey)
- Democratic Regions Party
- Free Cause Party
- Freedom and Socialism Party
- Kurdish Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Rights and Freedoms Party
Left-wing politics in Turkey
- Democratic confederalism
- Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey
- Labour and Freedom Alliance
- Left Party (Turkey)
- Party of the Greens and the Left Future
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Revolutionary People's Party (Turkey, legal)
Peoples' Democratic Congress
- Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey
- Democratic Regions Party
- KAOS GL
- Labour Party (Turkey)
- Party of the Greens and the Left Future
- Peoples' Democratic Congress
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (Turkey)
- Social Freedom Party
- Socialist Democracy Party
- Socialist Party of the Oppressed
- Socialist Refoundation Party
Secularism in Turkey
- Among Nonbelievers
- Anatolia Party
- Association for the Support of Contemporary Life
- Atatürkist Thought Association
- Atheism Association (Turkey)
- Communist Movement of Turkey
- Democratic Left Party (Turkey)
- Ergenekon (allegation)
- Good Party
- Greens Party (Turkey)
- Homeland Party (Turkey, 2021)
- Kemalism
- Leyla Şahin v Turkey
- Party of the Greens and the Left Future
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Populist Party (Turkey)
- Republic Protests
- Republican People's Party
- Republican People's Party (Turkey)
- Republican People's Party Youth
- Secularism in Turkey
- Social Democracy Party (Turkey)
- Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey)
- Social Democratic Populist Party (Turkey)
- White Turks
- Yobaz
- Young Party
- Democratic People's Party (Turkey)
- Democratic Union Party (Syria)
- Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party
- Kurdistan Free Life Party
- Kurdistan Society's Freedom Movement
- Kurdistan Toilers' Party
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Communist parties in Turkey
- Freedom and Socialism Party
- Kurdistan Workers' Party
- Labour and Freedom Alliance
- Left Party (Turkey)
- National Party (Turkey)
- Party of the Greens and the Left Future
- Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
- Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
- Revolutionary People's Party (Turkey, legal)
- Socialist Refoundation Party
- Union of Socialist Forces
- Workers' Party of Turkey (2017)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples'_Equality_and_Democracy_Party
Also known as DEM Party, HEDEP, Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, People's Equality and Democracy Party.
, Siirt (electoral district), Social Freedom Party, Socialism, Tülay Hatimoğulları Oruç, Tuncer Bakırhan, Turkey, Women in Turkey, 2018 Turkish parliamentary election, 2021–2024 Peoples' Democratic Party closure case, 2023 Turkish general election, 2023 Turkish parliamentary election, 2024 Turkish local elections.