List of political parties in Turkey


is a presidential democracy with a multi-party system. Major parties are defined as political parties that received more than 10% of the votes in the latest general election and/or represented in parliament. Minor parties are defined as political parties that have fulfilled the requirements of the Supreme Election Committee and whose names have been listed on ballots.

Major parties

Minor parties

Minor parties did not participate in the 2015 General Election are:
Party NameTurkish nameLeaderIdeologyPositionDate of foundation
Communist Party of Turkey Türkiye Komunist
Partisi		TKPKemal OkuyanCommunism
Marxism–Leninism		Far-left1993
Socialist Liberation PartyToplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi1920 TKPCommunism
Marxism–Leninism		Left-wing2012
Left PartySol PartiÖDPAlper TaşSocialismLeft-wing1994
Labour PartyEmek PartisiEMEPSelma GürkanCommunism
Marxism–Leninism		Left-wing1996
Revolutionary Socialist Workers' PartyDevrimci Sosyalist İşçi PartisiDSİPŞevket Doğan TarkanTrotskyismLeft-wing1997
Revolutionary Workers' PartyDevrimci İşçi PartisiDİPÖmer Sungur SavranTrotskyismLeft-wing2007
Socialist Workers' Party of TurkeyTürkiye Sosyalist İşçi PartisiTSİPTurgut KoçakSocialism
Marxism–Leninism		Left-wing1993
Conservative Ascension PartyMuhafazakâr Yükseliş PartisiMYPConservative2013
Homeland PartyYurt PartisiYURT-PConservative2002
Motherland PartyAnavatan PartisiANAPİbrahim ÇelebiLiberal2011
Great Turan Movement PartyTuran Hareketi PartisiTURANNationalism, TuranismFar-right2014
Ötüken Union PartyÖtüken Birliği PartisiÖTÜKENNationalism, Pan-TurkismAlt-right2017
National PartyUlusal PartiULUSALGökçe Fırat ÇulhaoğluNationalismFar-right2010
National Struggle PartyMilli Mücadele PartisiMMPNationalismFar-right2014
Green Left PartyYeşil Sol Parti-Eylem Tuncaelli, Naci SönmezGreen politicsLeft-wing2012
Women's PartyKadın Partisi-Fatma Benal YazganFeminismLeft2014
Centre PartyMerkez Parti-Centre2014
Young PartyGenç PartiGPHakan UzanCentre2002
Future PartyGelecek Partisi-Ahmet DavutoğluRight2019
New Welfare PartyYeniden Refah Partisi-Fatih ErbakanMilli GörüşFar-right2018

Former

Inactive parties

The following parties are inactive, and they are not listed in the active political parties list by the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Party NameTurkish nameIdeologyPosition
Socialist AlternativeSosyalist AlternatifSAMarxist, Trotskyist, Committee for a Workers InternationalLeft-wing
People's Communist Party of TurkeyHalkın Türkiye Komünist PartisiHTKPLeft-wing
Socialist Democracy PartySosyalist Demokrasi PartisiSDPLeft-wing
Participatory Democracy PartyKatılımcı Demokrasi PartisiKADEPKurdish nationalism
Democracy Party of Turkey & KurdistanTürkiye Kürdistan Demokrasi PartisiT-KDPKurdish nationalism
Alternative and Change PartyAlternatif ve Değişim PartisiAL PARTİConservative
Nation and Justice PartyMillet ve Adalet PartisiMİLADConservative
People's Ascent PartyHalkın Yükselişi PartisiHYPLiberal
Turkey's Change MovementTürkiye Değişim HareketiTDHLiberal
Social Reconciliation Reform and Development PartyToplumsal Uzlaşma Reform ve Kalkınma PartisiTURK-PNationalism
Independent Republic PartyBağımsız Cumhuriyet PartisiBCPNationalism
Rights and Equality PartyHak ve Eşitlik PartisiHEPARNationalism
Electronic Democracy PartyElektronik Demokrasi Partisie-PartiCentre

Defunct and historical parties

These are some of the parties that were dismantled because of their internal dynamics, mergers, inability to find electoral base or through governmental intervention, for instance following the coups.

Banned parties

These are some of the parties that were banned through extraordinary courts or the Constitutional Court of Turkey.