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Türkiye

Republican People’s Party

Kemalism / social democracy

Logo of Republican People’s Party.

Türkiye’s oldest party, founded by Atatürk. Campaigns on secularism, restoration of the parliamentary system, judicial independence and social democratic economics.

Founded
1923
Positions as of
2023 election declaration
Last verified
01

What does it believe?

  • Religion and the state

    Committed to laiklik, the constitutional secularism established at the republic’s founding.

  • Power and its limits

    Central pledge is a return to a strengthened parliamentary system with an independent judiciary and central bank.

02

Where it sits on each dimension

Wealth and inequality

32

Evidence: Documented

The state in the economy

40

Evidence: Documented

Personal liberty

64

Evidence: Documented

Tradition and change

66

Evidence: Documented

Nation and the world

66

Evidence: Well documented

Religion and the state

12

Evidence: Well documented

Power and its limits

76

Evidence: Well documented

Environment and growth

60

Evidence: Documented

Sources

Sources are prioritised in this order: official manifestos, official party documents, parliamentary records, academic research, then high-quality reporting.

  • Party Programme · Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi
  • Election Declaration · Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi · 2023

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