Freedom and Socialism Party

Freedom and Socialism Party
Leader	Sinan Çiftyürek
Founded	19 December 2011
Headquarters	Cumhuriyet Mah. Bayındır Sok. No: 6/12 Sıhhiye Çankaya, Ankara
Ideology	Marxism
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Red, Yellow, Black
Website
http://osp.org.tr
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Freedom and Socialism Party (Turkish: Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi, Kurdish: Partiya Azadî û Sosyalîzmê) is a Kurdish-based Marxist political party in Turkey.

Development

Communist Party of Kurdistan cadres including Sinan Çiftyürek and Mehmet Akyol announced the founding of a new frame for a legal party named Mesopotamia Socialist Party (Mezopotamya Sosyalist Partisi) after a November 2003 meeting in Gaziantep.^[1]^[2] The initiative for Mesopotamia Socialist Party merged with the Socialist Party Founders Committee, another faction of Kurdish socialists in October 2010.^[3]^[4] The new group was named the Freedom and Socialism Party and it was officially founded on 19 December 2011 with Çiftyürek as the chairman.^[5]

Ideology

Founder and chairman Sinan Çiftyürek describes the Freedom and Socialist Party as "a workers' party with a socialist line" and with no particular ethnic emphasis albeit its Kurdish background.^[5] The party propagates a federation of Turkish and Kurdish peoples "on a condition of equality".^[5]

References

Political parties in Turkey

Parliament	Justice and Development Party (317) Republican People's Party (133) Nationalist Movement Party (40) Peoples' Democratic Party (59)

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