Felicity Party
The Saadet Partisi (Eng. " Felicity Party " ) is an Islamist political party in Turkey, was established on 21 July 2001.
The party is, as well as the more moderate Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi ( AKP) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a successor to the Fazilet ( " Virtue Party " ), which was banned a day after the establishment of the SP. The chairman was Necmettin Erbakan. It is the political party of part of the Milli Görüş movement - whose German organization is under surveillance of German constitutional protection. Central leader of the party is the late former Prime Minister of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan. The mouthpiece of the Saadet Partisi is the Milli Gazette.
The emblem of the party consists of a crescent moon and five-pointed stars out of five. The large star represents esteem, reputation and honor (Turkish: Şeref ). The two medium-sized stars stand for justice and legal awareness, welfare and recovery. The two small stars symbolize love, tolerance, brotherhood and peace, and human rights and freedoms.
Party program and ideology
In its party program defines secularism as neutrality and non-interference of the state in religious affairs. The U.S. policy refers to the SP there as " bloody occupation policy " and " racist imperialism ". The European Union, whose attitude towards the values of the Turkish nation is unacceptable in any case, serve according to the program this racist imperialism. Accordingly, the party 's EU accession of Turkey refuses. The Saadet Partisi claimed leadership of Turkey. Turkey should not be more satellite state, but leadership power. It also calls for the permanent membership of Turkey in the UN Security Council. The German Constitutional protection assumes that the Felicity Party seeks the abolition of secularism and all areas of life and society comprehensive Islamic order. Statements of the deputy chairman of the party, Mete Gündoğan, according to which the movement aims at the creation of a large Turkey.
On the website of the party to conspiracy theories to find Zionists, Freemasons, CIA and Mossad:
" Erbakan pointed out that Zionism exploiting the global economy and said: On each purchased bread they raise interest rates. You think you only buy bread and not even realize that you pay interest Zionism. Even the bakeries were brought with the money of Zionism up and running. Thus, Zionism has incorporated the power of money. With the help of Masonic organizations, he has also acquired the human resources. With the help of both powers he has worked since about 5700 [sic ] years to establish a Greater Israel and to rule the world. ' "
In the online edition of the Milli Gazette, one of the Saadet Partisi related Islamist newspaper that the Holocaust is denied and in the print edition of 20 November 2003 is claimed Israel would form a new Israeli government in northern Iraq and occupy the south-eastern Turkey. In the same issue it says:
"For ' Islamist terrorism ' is a [ ... ] joint product of America and Israel. [ ... ] Every time you scratch something on the surface of the terrorist attacks, which inscription grins us 'Made in Pentagon ' or ' Made in Mossad ' on. "
Election results
For the general elections on 3 October 2002, the Saadet Partisi received 2.49 percent of the votes and thus failed at the 10 percent electoral threshold. Their predecessors party had received 1999 or 15.41 percent of the vote. In regional elections in 2004, the Saadet Partisi won nationwide 3.97 percent of the vote and placed so that mayors in 12 of the 923 counties. In the parliamentary elections of 2007, the party received only 2.3 % of the votes and thus failed for the umpteenth time the feeder to the Turkish Parliament.
Islamic Holdings
There were always reputed contacts from the Saadet Partisi officials and the Milli Görüş to the so-called " Islamic Holdings ". In this case, retail investors are advertised in mosques or at home visits. The business is based on good faith. Often investors do not have a title and lose their savings. Even before German courts, complaints of those affected were negotiated.