Denk (political party)

Denk
LeaderStephan van Baarle
ChairmanEjder Köse[1]
Leader in the House
of Representatives
Stephan van Baarle
FoundersTunahan Kuzu
Selçuk Öztürk
Founded9 February 2015
Split fromLabour Party
HeadquartersLodewijk Pincoffsweg 503, Rotterdam
Youth wingJongerenbeweging Oppositie[2]
Think tankWetenschappelijk Instituut Statera[3]
Membership (2024)Increase 3,594[4]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[17] to left-wing[18]
Colours  Turquoise
  Orange
Senate
0 / 75
House of Representatives
3 / 150
Provincial councils
0 / 570
Website
bewegingdenk.nl

Denk (Dutch: [dɛŋk], Turkish: [dæɲc]; Dutch for 'think' and Turkish for 'equal' / 'balanced'),[19] legally registered as Politieke Beweging Denk ("Political Movement Denk"),[20] is a political party in the Netherlands, founded on a minority rights platform.[21]

The party was founded by Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk, two Turkish Dutch members of the House of Representatives, after leaving the Labour Party on 13 November 2014. Upon winning three seats at the 2017 election, Denk became the first migrant-founded party to gain seats in the Dutch national parliament.[22]

Although the party has been colloquially described as a "Muslim political party", Denk "does not promote Muslim candidates as do most similar political parties in Europe".[12] Denk's current party leader and lijsttrekker in the House of Representatives, Stephan van Baarle, is an agnostic.[23]

  1. ^ Website Denk Archived 17 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine, BewegingDENK.nl
  2. ^ "Jongerenbeweging OPPOSITIE". jboppositie.nl. Archived from the original on 20 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  3. ^ "DENK". parlement.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Ledentallen Nederlandse politieke partijen per 1 januari 2024" [Membership of Dutch political parties as of 1 January 2024]. University of Groningen (in Dutch). Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  5. ^ Wiegman, Marcel (24 March 2018). "Denk vindt de Turkse stem in Amsterdam". Het Parool (in Dutch).
  6. ^ "Een gelukkige Turk is niet blij met Denk". RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 23 March 2018.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference How will Turkish Germans vote was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference armeniangenocidedenial was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Boon, Floor (4 June 2020). "Denk: trouwe achterban, crisis of niet". NRC.
  10. ^ "Nieuwe Denk-leider Azarkan mikt op zes zetels en wil meebesturen". nos.nl. 26 September 2020.
  11. ^ a b "De DENK-stemmer: progressief én conservatief?". 22 January 2018.
  12. ^ a b Spektorowski, Alberto; Elfersy, Daphna (2020), From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination: The Challenge of Islam and the Re-emergence of Europe's Nationalism, University of Michigan Press, p. 204, ISBN 9780472132164
  13. ^ Blankvoort, Medy (20 March 2019). Ethnic outbidding and the emergence of DENK in the Netherlands (Masters). Leiden University. hdl:1887/68915.
  14. ^ "DENK wil burger heropvoeden. Waar zagen we dat eerder? - EW". EWmagazine.nl (in Dutch). 16 November 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Na DENK wil Simons zich inzetten voor homorechten - EW". EWmagazine.nl. 27 December 2016.
  16. ^ "Verstandshuwelijk in het Rotterdamse stadsbestuur: 'Denk en Leefbaar delen meer dan je verwacht'". 18 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Tweede Kamer Verkiezingen: Achter de schermen bij het Kieskompas". 5 March 2021.
  18. ^ "Netherlands". Europe Elects.
  19. ^ Cite error: The named reference politico was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  20. ^ Kiesraad (22 April 2016). "Register - Verkiezingen - Kiesraad.nl". www.kiesraad.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  21. ^ Siegal, Nina (29 July 2016). "A Pro-Immigrant Party Rises in the Netherlands". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  22. ^ Otjesa, Simon; Krouwel, André (2018), "Why do newcomers vote for a newcomer? Support for an immigrant party", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (7), Routledge: 1
  23. ^ Van Baarle, Stephan (17 February 2018). "Integratie is een kunstmatige term" [Integration is an artificial term]. nrc.nl (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Elsje Jorritsma and Eppo König. Retrieved 5 April 2021.