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Unity Party Birlik partiyasi | |
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Leader | Abdurakhim Pulat |
Founded | 16 November 1988 |
Registered | 23 August 2003 |
Banned | 1994 |
Newspaper | Birlik Harakat |
Ideology | Conservative liberalism National liberalism Pan-Turkism |
Political position | Centre-right |
Colours | Blue |
Slogan | Kuch birlikda ("Strength Is in Unity") |
Legislative Chamber | 0 / 150 |
Website | |
harakat | |
The Unity Party (Uzbek: Birlik partiyasi) is the main right-wing opposition officially unregistered political party in Uzbekistan since 1994. A conservative liberal party, it was founded in 1988 as a pro-independent movement in the Soviet Union (USSR) and has since promoted anti-communism, pan Turkism, secularism, and a civic nationalism of the Uzbeks.
Birlik has been under pressure from the Uzbek authorities; some activists are in prison and many members of the organization were forced to leave the country, with the organization not having conducted party and electoral activities since the 2000s.