Nine Lights Doctrine


The Nine Lights Doctrine refers to an ideology introduced by Alparslan Turkeş, the founder of the Nationalist Movement Party of Turkey. Each of the lights is presented as a precept "good-for-everybody". The nine lights are as follows:
The Nine Lights Doctrine was at first published only as a pamphlet of 16 pages but until 1978 it evolved into an ideology presented in a book of 672 pages. The nine light doctrine was included into the party program of the Republican Peasents' Nationalist Party in 1967, which later changed its name and evolved into the Nationalist Movement Party in 1969.