Welfare Party ( Ref . Partisi , RP) - Turkish Islamic Party.
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| Ideology | Islamism , conservatism |
History
It was created in 1983 in Ankara after the prohibition of parties of national order and national salvation. The founders of the welfare party are Ali Turkman, Ahmet Tekdal and Nejmettin Erbakan . In the 1987 election, the party received 7.2% of the vote. Candidates from the Welfare Party won the mayoral election in the cities of Konya , Sanliurfa and Van . In the 1991 election, the party participated in conjunction with the party of the Nationalist Movement (IPA) and reformist democracy. Together they scored 16.9% of the vote, gaining 62 seats in the national assembly . But after the election, 19 deputies left the PND and the 3rd party of prosperity. Gradually, the popularity of the welfare party grew. It peaked in 1996. In 1997, the government of Necmettin Erbakan was accused of re-Islamizing Turkey and overthrown by the military [1] .
In January 1998, the Turkish Constitutional Court banned the party, finding it guilty of violating the principle of separation of religion from the state [2] . This decision was challenged by the ECHR , but in February 2003 he recognized the party’s ban as legal. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch criticized the decision of the ECHR for inconsistency, since the ban on a number of other Turkish parties was recognized by it as inappropriate to the law [3] [4] .
The future Prime Minister and President of Turkey, Recep Erdogan , was a member of the Welfare Party, and subsequently he founded the Justice and Development Party . Abdullah Gul , also subsequently elected president, until the prohibition of the welfare party held the position of its vice-chairman.
See also
- The Case of the Missing Trillion
- Category: Welfare Party Members
Notes
- ↑ Karadjis, Michael. Behind the Turkish Military's "Soft Coup" (Eng.) // Green Left Weekly : newspaper. - 1997 .-- 19 October ( vol. 294 ).
- ↑ Turkey's Welfare Party is banned , BBC News (January 16, 1998).
- ↑ Turkey: Party Case Shows Need for Reform - Ruling Party Narrowly Escapes Court Ban , Human Rights Watch , July 31, 2008
- ↑ Moe, Christian. Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey (Eng.) // International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law: journal. - International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, 2003 .-- September ( vol. 6 , no. 1 ). - ISSN 1556-5157 . Archived on September 25, 2008.