Freedom and Solidarity Party

The Party of Freedom and Solidarity ( Turkish Özgürlük ve Dayanisma Partisi, ODP ) is a revolutionary, anti-capitalist and socialist party in Turkey. It represents the concept of libertarian socialism as one of the few parties in the world.

The ODP is the result of a merger of Devrimci Yol follow-up project Geleceği Birlikte Kuralım (GBK ) and the Birleşik Sosyalist Partisi (BSP ), which, in turn, a merger among others former members of the TIP and other formerly pro-Soviet parties and members of other left-wing groups such as Türkiye ve Kuzey Kürdistan Kurtuluş Örgütü and Yeni Yol, was in 1996.

In the 1999 parliamentary elections the party got only 0.8 % of the vote, falling well below the ten-percent electoral threshold. According to internal problems in 2002, which the elimination of several groups such as the SDP and SEH ( both of which support the DEHAP favorite in the elections ) had the effect she received in 2002 only 0.34 % of the vote. In the county elections of 2004, however, the ODP was able to move in the parliaments of the provinces of Artvin and Yozgat. In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party leader Ufuk Uras succeeded as a candidate for the entry into parliament that do not comprehensively An incoming party won only 0.15 % of the vote.

Internationally, it is a member of the European Anti -Capitalist Left and since 2007 a ​​full member of the European Left Party.

The party champions in its party program a libertarian oriented to self-government, internationalist, planned economy oriented, ecological, anti-militarist and feminist socialism. Your goal is to abolish it, and to install a political rule of the " forces of the work activity" means the supremacy of the " forces of capital " and imperialism.