Green Left Party
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Green Left Party Yeşil Sol Parti | |
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Leader | Eylem Tuncaelli (female spokesperson) Naci Sönmez (male spokesperson) |
Founded | 25 November 2012 |
Headquarters | İzmir 2 Cad. 45/15 Kızılay, Ankara |
Ideology | Green politics Anti-capitalism Alter-globalization Direct democracy Secularism |
Political position | Left-wing |
National affiliation | Peoples' Democratic Congress |
European affiliation | European Green Party (candidate member since 2012[1]) |
International affiliation | none |
Colours | Green |
Website | |
http://yesillervesolgelecek.org/ | |
Green Left Party (Turkish: Yeşil Sol Parti) is a left-libertarian and green party in Turkey. It was founded on 25 November 2012 with the name Greens and the Left Party of the Future (Turkish: Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi) as a merger of the Greens Party and the Equality and Democracy Party. The party changed its name in April 2016.
Prominent members include Murat Belge, left-liberal political author and columnist for Taraf; Kutluğ Ataman, filmmaker and contemporary artist; and Ufuk Uras, former Istanbul deputy and president of the Freedom and Solidarity Party.
The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012.
The party has formally acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Statutes of the European Green Party, amended at the EGP Council, 26 November 2017, Karlstad, with a list of the members
- ^ "Turkey's Green Party recognizes Armenian Genocide | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency". Armenpress.am. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
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