Virtue Party Fazilet Partisi | |
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| Leader | Recai Kutan |
| Founder | İsmail Alptekin |
| Founded | 17 December 1997 |
| Banned | 22 June 2001 |
| Preceded by | Welfare Party (RP) |
| Succeeded by | Felicity Party (SP) Justice and Development Party (AKP) |
| Headquarters | Ankara |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Virtue Party (Turkish: Fazilet Partisi, FP) was an Islamist[1] political party established on 17 December 1997 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned on 22 June 2001 for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution.[2][3] After the party's ban, the party MPs founded two sections of parties: reformist Justice and Development Party (AKP), headed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and traditionalist Felicity Party (SP), headed by Recai Kutan.
- ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Turkey". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 9 October 2002.
- ^ Atacan 2005, 188.
- ^ Turkey bans Islamic party, BBC