Labour Party (Turkey)
Turkish political party
The Labour Party (Turkish: Emek Partisi, pronounced [ɛˈmɛc paɾtiˈsi]; EMEP) is a Turkish political party founded in 1996. Its chairperson is Seyit Aslan.
Its ideological stance is in accord with the line of ICMLPO. In its programme, EMEP identifies its goal as creating an "Independent and Democratic Turkey". The party publishes the daily Evrensel (lit. 'Universal'). The party is one of the participants in the People's Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in 2012. It is one of the few political parties in Turkey that recognizes the Armenian genocide.
History
The party was founded as Labour Party (Emek Partisi, EP) on 25 November 1996. Due to a ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded as Party of Labour (Emeğin Partisi, EMEP) the same year. In 2005, the original name was reinstalled after the European Court of Human Rights held the ban was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Split in the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
The Labour Party (EMEP) had been a member of the Peoples' Democratic Congress and had participated in the establishment of the HDP in 2012.
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