Green Left Party

Green Left Party
Yeşil Sol Parti
Leader Eylem Tuncaelli (female spokesperson)
Naci Sönmez (male spokesperson)
Founded 25 November 2012
Headquarters İzmir 2 Cad. 45/15 Kızılay, Ankara
Ideology Green politics
Anti-capitalism
Alter-globalization
Direct democracy
Secularism
Political position Left-wing
National affiliation Peoples' Democratic Congress
European affiliation European Green Party (candidate member since 2012[1])
International affiliation none
Colours Green
Website
http://yesillervesolgelecek.org/

Green Left Party (Turkish: Yeşil Sol Parti) is a left-libertarian and green party in Turkey. It was founded on 25 November 2012 with the name Greens and the Left Party of the Future (Turkish: Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi) as a merger of the Greens Party and the Equality and Democracy Party. The party changed its name in April 2016.

Prominent members include Murat Belge, left-liberal political author and columnist for Taraf; Kutluğ Ataman, filmmaker and contemporary artist; and Ufuk Uras, former Istanbul deputy and president of the Freedom and Solidarity Party.

The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012.

The party has formally acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.[2]

References

  1. Statutes of the European Green Party, amended at the EGP Council, 26 November 2017, Karlstad, with a list of the members
  2. "Turkey's Green Party recognizes Armenian Genocide | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency". Armenpress.am. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
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