Welfare Party

The Refah Partisi ( German about " Welfare Party ", RP) was one of the Milli Görüş movement associated Islamist party in Turkey, which was founded as a successor party to the banned after the military coup of 1980 Millî Selamet Partisi on July 19, 1983 and 1998, even forbidden. The party was formed together with the Yol Partisi Doğru 1996/97, the Turkish government. Your existing today are the Saadet Partisi successor parties and the ruling Adalet ve currently alone Kalkınma Partisi, which are from a split in the Fazilet, the direct successor to the RP, emerged.

Chairman of the party were successively Ali Türkmen, Ahmed Tekdal and Necmettin Erbakan, who was also Prime Minister of Turkey. The current Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was deputy chairman of the party and was its successor party, the Fazilet, until his resignation in 1998.

Reign

At first she was successful at the local level in the provinces of Konya, Şanlıurfa, Van, Kahramanmaras and Sivas. In the parliamentary elections in 1991, a coalition of RP, MCP and IDP reached 16.88 % of the vote and 62 seats, of which 38 were eventually occupied by RP- MPs.

In the elections of 24 December 1995, the Welfare Party won 21.4 % of the votes, the elections, but neither with the Anavatan Partisi Mesut Yılmaz still with the Yol Partisi Doğru Tansu Çiller it first came to an agreement on the formation of a coalition government. President Süleyman Demirel now commissioned Yılmaz with the establishment of the government. Only on 6 March 1996 finally could a government be established. It came to the short-lived coalition between the Motherland Party and the True Path Party ( the anayol - government). After the dissolution of the coalition got the job again Erbakan to form a government. On June 28 of 1996, the coalition government with the True Path Party ( Refahyol the government, the 54th Government of Turkey). In the following years there were in the country strengthened to secularism debates that led to the decisions of the National Security Council of 28 February 1997. These decisions led the investigation of a report of the Turkish secret about " fundamentalist activities in the country ." Following the decisions of 28 February ( referenced in the Turkish literature as postmodern coup is ) the Welfare Party was increasingly put under pressure. In an attempt to preserve the government should come to the agreed-upon between Erbakan and Çiller exchange of offices: Çiller should be prime minister, but base their government again with Erbakan. Erbakan reached on 18 June 1997 in his resignation.

The agreement between the two parties drew President Demirel a spanner in the works: he is not responsible Çiller but Yılmaz with the foundation of government. The 55th Government on 30 June 1997 between the Motherland Party, the Democratic Left Party and the Democratic Turkey Party (which had recently been founded by politicians who had left in protest against the coalition with the Welfare Party, the True Path Party, ) formed.

Closure of the party

Meanwhile, the Attorney General of the Supreme Court Vural Savaş had opened a closure case against the Welfare Party on the grounds that the Welfare Party had become the focal point of anti- secular activities, on 21 May 1997. The Constitutional Court delivered on 16 January 1998 the ruling on the closure of the Welfare Party. On 28 February 1998, the party was finally closed.

The judgment led to proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights, however, who noted no violations of human rights with regard to the closure of the judgment.

Swell

  • Islamist party
  • Historic Party ( Turkey)
  • Forbidden Party
  • Islam in Turkey
  • Millî Görü
  • Founded in 1983
  • Dissolved in 1998
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