Great Union Party

The Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP, German Party of Great unit or Great Unity Party ) is a right-wing extremist Islamist and nationalist political party in Turkey. Your Founding Chairman Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu died in March 2009 in a helicopter crash.

  • 5.1 Association of Turkish cultural associations in Europe
  • 5.2 The Alperen Ocaklari

Formation

The BBP was formed when the radical wing of the "party of the Nationalist Work " - the Nationalist Movement Party, said in the meantime - to Mr Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu be renounced on July 7, 1992 by the party and finally on the " historic decision Congress " the establishment a new party announced. On January 29, 1993, the "party of the Great Unity" was officially established. They considered according to their own website as a true heir of the nationalist MHP and feels like a part of Turkish " idealists " movement, from whose ranks the Chairman Yazıcıoğlu emerged.

Party program and statutes

The Islam

The party sees Islam as the religion that bring people prosperity, peace and justice. He meant honor and happiness. At the same time Islam is a sacred source of strength. Islam has brought the basic constitution ( düstur ) the people and show the direction.

The BBP emphasized in their program from 1993 Islam as the main element of their Turkish-Islamic identity. Harald students is the passage again as follows:

In the current party platform also states the political elite of Turkey has not taken care of the things of God and the people, but for the welfare of the West.

Secularism

According to the party program secularism is synonymous with the neutrality of the state towards religion. Secularism also encompasses the right to freedom of expression and free exercise of religious beliefs, especially the participation in religious ceremonies and the right to religious training.

Nationalism and the Kurdish question

The economic and social cooperation with the " Turkish world " is formulated as a goal. Turkey and " their fellow countrymen in the East", would be a day laborer for the interests of the West, yet also represent the "seedy values ​​" of the West.

Nationalism, which insists on the "principle of race" is rejected according to the party program. Kurds are not regarded as a distinct people, but as " brothers, the same indivisible people belong ."

Right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism

According to various reports, the constitutional protection BBP is considered quite extreme and as part of the movement of the Grey Wolves, who have a "racist - nationalist orientation " and " violent and totalitarian structures " stand. Islam expert Michael Kiefer sees in the BBP program similarities to the German NPD. Other experts also speak of anti-Semitic and militant tendencies. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung considers the BBP as " extremely nationalistic "

Assassination of Hrant Dink

The BBP is said to have been involved in the assassination plot against the Armenian- journalist Hrant Dink in 2007. It turned out that the current President of the BBP had transferred money in Trabzon of the alleged instigator Yasin Hayal family when he was in prison for an attack on a McDonald's restaurant. The party leadership claimed that there had been a " donation for a needy ," which had nothing to do with the murder.

Election results

The BBP posted in the local elections in Turkey in 1994 nationwide 0.43 percent of the vote and placed eleven mayors throughout Turkey. Local strongholds of BBP in the provincial council elections in the same year were the provinces of Sivas ( 18%) and Kahramanmaras. Harald student attributes this to the fact that Siva is the home province of the Chairman Yazıcıoğlu and that the Party successfully exploited the political and religious opposition between Alevis and Sunnis. Nationally, she won a vote share of 1.26 per cent.

Through an electoral alliance with the ANAP were able to move in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the early general elections in 1995 seven MPs from the BBP for the ANAP. A year later failed the electoral alliance and the deputies returned the ANAP the back. In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the vote share of the BBP was 1.02 percent. In 2006, BBP eleven mayors, three of them in the province of Trabzon, two in the province of Sivas. In the 2007 parliamentary elections as an Independent candidate Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu and was directly elected to parliament.

Organs and subsidiary organizations

The highest organ of the party is the " Big Party " ( Büyük Kurultay ). He performs all of two years. Between the party days the Bureau ( Merkez Karar Yönetim Kurulu ) is the highest party authority. It consists of 80 main and 40 alternate members. Chairman of the Presidium of the party chairman. The Executive Board ( Başkanlık Divani ), the daily business. It consists of the Chairman, the Secretary and the Deputy Chairman. There also exists a central Disciplinary Board ( Merkez Disiplin Kurulu ) consisting of nine primary and nine alternate members, who are elected on the "Big Party ". The " General Advisory Committee " ( Genel İstişare Kurulu ) consists of Bureau Board, Disciplinary Board, area coordinators, chairman of the women 's and youth organizations, the provincial chairman, mayors and other members who shall be appointed by the Board.

Association of Turkish cultural associations in Europe

In Europe, the BBP by the " Association of Turkish cultural associations in Europe" ( Avrupa Türk BİRLİGİ, ATB) is represented. The organization was created in 2002 as a successor to the Nizam -ı Alem Avrupa Ocaklari Federasyonu ( ANOF ). The current chairman is Recep Yıldırım. Quotes from the website ( atb - europa.com ):

The Alperen Ocaklari

The youth organizations of BBP call themselves Alperen Ocaklari ( ocak means " hearth" but in this sense is it a " shelter " or " meeting place " applied ).

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