Labour Party (Turkey)

The Emek Partisi ( German Labour Party ) or EMEP is a company incorporated in 1996, the Marxist- Leninist Workers Party in Turkey. It is committed to scientific socialism.

Development of the party

EMEP has been set up by members of illegal Türkiye Devrimci komünist Partisi ( TDKP, Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey ) to life. It consisted Emek Partisi as between 27 March 1996 and 14 February 1997. It was banned by the Constitutional Court for an infringement of Articles 78 and 81 of the Law on Political Parties with the number 2820. The Emeğin Partisi ( can be abbreviated also translated as the party of labor or labor and EMEP ) was founded on 26 November 1996. Both parties were initially led by Abdullah Levent Tüzel. In a decision of 31 May 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the ban on the party in breach of the Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In response, the Emeğin Partisi named in November 2005 again to Emek Partisi in.

The Emek Partisi has been involved since its inception at all national elections. She is entered into with various parties coalitions. In the elections for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2002, it has formed with 20 parties and political groups a block of " labor peace, democracy ," in the regional elections in 2004, a similar coalition was put together as a "block of the combined forces ". At the 2007 elections the EMEP was right in some places, in other places involved in coalition with independent candidates. Abdullah Levent Tüzel turned in Izmir as an independent candidate of forces' manpower and democracy "to select and received 36,167 votes ( a share of 3.4 %). So he missed election to the deputies.

In the 2011 elections, there was again the block " working strength, peace, democracy," presented for the independent candidates for election ( including representatives from EMEP ). Levent Tüzel turned the elections in the 3rd district of Istanbul and was elected as an independent candidate. The separate vote share of the party remained low. In the parliamentary elections in Turkey 2007 Emek Partisi won 0.08 % of the total voting share. In the 2011 elections the party with 21,128 votes totaled 0.07 % of the total voting participation.

Current Situation

Since 2011, the party chairman is is Selma Gürkan. The daily Evrensel is close to the party. On 19 December 2011, the 6th Congress of the Party was held on a 45 - member board was elected.