Party for Change in Turkey

For other topics with similar names, see Movement for Change (disambiguation).

Party for Change in Turkey
Türkiye Değişim Partisi
LeaderMustafa Sarıgül
General SecretarySoner Gökçe
Founded2020[1]
Dissolved8 June 2023
Split fromDSP
CHP
Preceded byTDH
Merged intoCHP[2]
HeadquartersÇankaya, Ankara[3]
Youth wingYouth of Change
IdeologySocial democracy[4]
Kemalism[5]
Civic nationalism
Left-wing populism[6][better source needed]
Economic nationalism[7]
Pro-Europeanism[8]
Political positionCentre[citation needed] to centre-left [citation needed]
ColoursWhite and red
SloganChange takes heart! Değişim yürek ister!

The Party for Change in Turkey, or TDP (Turkish: Türkiye Değişim Partisi), was a Turkish political movement originally started and founded in 2009, transforming into a political party in 2020 under the leadership of Mustafa Sarıgül.

After a period in the DSP,[9] Sarıgül established the TDH (Türkiye Değişim Hareketi/Movement for Change in Turkey) to challenge the domination of the Turkish centre-left by the CHP,[10] whose leader Deniz Baykal had withstood a leadership challenge by Sarıgül in 2005.[11]

Party leader Sarıgül announced that they would support the CHP and Kılıçdaroğlu in the 2023 general elections. In response, the CHP made Sarıgül a candidate for the parliament from the Erzincan electoral district. Party leader Mustafa Sarıgül announced that they were merging with the CHP on 8 June 2023.[12]

  1. ^ "Mustafa Sarıgül parti kuruyor". 23 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Mustafa Sarıgül'ün partisi TDP, CHP'ye katılıyor". 2 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Türkiye Değişim Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  4. ^ https://tdp.org.tr/parti-programi/ [bare URL]
  5. ^ https://tdp.org.tr/parti-tuzugu/ [bare URL]
  6. ^ "Parti Tüzüğü".
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20221025012205/https://tdp.org.tr/haber/ekonomik-milliyetcilik/ [bare URL]
  8. ^ "Parti Programı". tdp.org.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  9. ^ "Mustafa Sarıgül officially joins the DSP". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 24 September 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  10. ^ Yusuf Kanlı (29 January 2010). "Is Sarıgül dividing the CHP?". Hürriyet Daily News (in Turkish). Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  11. ^ "New Sarıgül movement worries left-wing parties". Today's Zaman. 21 January 2010. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved on 12 May 2010. (in Turkish)
  12. ^ "Türkiye Değişim Partisi, CHP ile birleşme kararı aldı". Ses Kocaeli Gazetesi (in Turkish). 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.