Homeland Party (Turkey, 2021)

Not to be confused with Yurt Partisi, another active political party in Turkey that translates to the same name.
Homeland Party
Memleket Partisi
AbbreviationMemleket (official)
ChairpersonMuharrem İnce
SecretaryHalil İlker Çelik
FounderMuharrem İnce
Founded4 September 2020 (2020-09-04) (as a movement)
Registered17 May 2021 (2021-05-17) (as a party)
Split fromRepublican People's Party
HeadquartersÇankaya, Ankara
Membership (2024)Increase 66,738[2]
IdeologyKemalism[3]
Pro-Europeanism[4]
Populism[5][6]
Ulusalism (alleged)[7][8][9]
Colours  Blue
  Light blue
Slogan(MAVİ)
Homeland, Justice, Conscience, and Jobs for the jobless!
Grand National Assembly
0 / 600
Provincial councillors
0 / 1,282
Municipal assemblies
10 / 20,952
Website
memleketpartisi.org.tr

The Homeland Party (Turkish: Memleket Partisi) is a political party in Turkey that was founded on 17 May 2021 by Muharrem İnce, the former candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the 2018 Turkish presidential election.

The party originated as a social movement (Homeland Movement[10]) in September 2020, two years after the election. It split from the CHP after İnce failed to unseat serving CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu from his position.[11] İnce was also encouraged to establish a party during his Homeland Movement campaign.[12]

The party is largely seen as a protest movement against the established CHP leadership, which has refused to resign despite consecutive election losses and has been accused by İnce of straying from the CHP's core Kemalist values.[13] One of the party's slogans is "Neither from the right nor from the left, but in the way of Atatürk".

  1. ^ "Memleket Partisi Resmi Web Sitesi" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  2. ^ "Memleket Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
  3. ^ "Muharrem İnce, Memleket Partisi'nin yol haritasını açıkladı". BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-04-01.
  4. ^ "Memleket Partisi Program" (PDF). memleketpartisi.org.tr.
  5. ^ "Lümpenleşme, popülizm, tedirgin iyimserlik arasına sıkışmak". Gazete Oksijen. 4 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Präsidentschaftswahl in der Türkei: Muharrem İnce könnte zum Spielverderber werden". Der Tagesspiegel Online.
  7. ^ Duvar, Gazete (2023-09-05). "Son düzlükte İnce-Oğan ve ittifaklar". www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/son-duzlukte-ince-ogan-ve-ittifaklar-makale-1617232 (in Turkish). Retrieved 2024-01-26.
  8. ^ Tauscher, Soner; Erdoğdu, Osman; Korkmaz, Şebnem (2019-06-30). "Alman Medyasının Eleştirel Söylem Analizi: 24 Haziran 2018 Türkiye Genel Seçimleri". Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi (in Turkish) (33): 96–118. doi:10.17829/turcom.525984. ISSN 2630-6220.
  9. ^ Mutlu, Begüm; Tokmak, Mehmet Can (2023-11-09). "Demokratik Gelişim Perspektifinden Türkiye'de Siyasal Partileşme Kültürü". 4. BOYUT Medya ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Dergisi (in Turkish) (23): 121–191. doi:10.26650/4boyut.2023.1362630. ISSN 2822-6623.
  10. ^ See “History” for more information about the movement.
  11. ^ "Kılıçdaroğlu Muharrem İncenin siyasi parti yapılanması iddialarına yanıt verdi" [Kılıçdaroğlu responds to claims of İnce forming a party]. sozcu.com.tr (in Turkish). Sözcü Gazetesi. 1 January 2021.
  12. ^ "İnce 'parti kurayım mı?' diye sordu, yurttaşlar yanıt verdi; "Kur, kur!"" [İnce; “The people want me to establish a political party.”] (in Turkish). Cumhuriyet Gazetesi (cumhuriyet.com.tr). 11 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Muharrem İnce istifa etti: CHP tabeladan ibaret" [İnce has resigned, accuses CHP.] (in Turkish). Gazete duvaR. (gazeteduvar.com.tr). 8 February 2021.