Democratic People's Party (Turkey)

Democratic People's Party (Turkish: Demokratik Halk Partisi, DEHAP) was a Kurdish[1] political party in Turkey. DEHAP was founded 24 October 1997. It was the continuation of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP), which was banned in March 2003 by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that it supported the Kurdistan Workers Party.[2] On the 26 March 2003, 35 Mayors who were part of the HADEP, joined the DEHAP.[3]

Democratic People's Party
Kurdish: Partiya Gel a Demokratîk
Turkish: Demokratik Halk Partisi
FoundedOctober 24, 1997 (1997-10-24)
DissolvedAugust 17, 2005 (2005-08-17)
Preceded byPeople's Democracy Party
Merged intoDemocratic Society Party
Succeeded byParticipatoric Democracy Party
Rights and Freedoms Party
IdeologyKurdish nationalism
Democratic socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Political positionFormerly Far-left
Left-wing
ColorsRed, Orange or Yellow

At its last legislative elections in November 2002, the party won 6.2% of the popular vote, thus not reaching the 10% threshold for gaining representation in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. For the local elections in March 2004,[4] the DEHAP, together with the Labour Party (EMEP), the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), and the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) entered an electoral alliance under the name of the Social Democrat People's Party (SHP)[3] Following the elections, 56 elected mayors returned to the DEHAP.[3]

On 17 August 2005 DEHAP announced its merger with the Democratic Society Movement (DTH) founded by Leyla Zana to form the Democratic Society Party (DTP).[5]

Footnotes
  1. Emrullah Uslu, The Transformation of Kurdish Political Identity in Turkey: Impact of Modernization, Democratization and Globalization, ProQuest, 2009, ISBN 978-1-109-05548-1, p. 73.
  2. Moghadam 2007, 86.
  3. Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Turkey: The situation and treatment of members, supporters and sympathizers of leftist parties, particularly the People's Democratic Party (HADEP) and Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) (January 2003 – September 2004)". Refworld. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  4. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  5. Marcus 2007, xi

References
  • Marcus, Aliza (2007). Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-5711-1.
  • Moghadam, Valentine M. (2007). From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0-8156-3111-1.


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