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Peace and Democracy Movement

political party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ6089355 ↗
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The Peace and Democracy Movement (Turkish: Barış ve Demokrasi Hareketi) was a social democratic political party in the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. In the legislative elections for the House of Representatives of Northern Cyprus on 20 January 2005 the party won 5.8% of the popular vote and 1 out of the 50 seats in the assembly.

The last leader of BDH was Mustafa Akıncı, a deputy in TRNC Assembly of the Republic. In May 2007, it merged with the Communal Liberation Party to form the Communal Democracy Party.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peace and Democracy Movement” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.