Parties Represented in The Current Parliament
Party | Ideology | Leader | MPs | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Justice and Development Party |
AKP | Economic liberalism Sunni Islamism Conservatism |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 326 | |
Republican People's Party |
CHP | Kemalism Social democracy Laicism |
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu | 135 | |
Nationalist Movement Party |
MHP | Turkish nationalism Ülkücülük |
Devlet Bahçeli | 51 | |
Peace and Democracy Party |
BDP | Democratic socialism Kurdish nationalism |
Selahattin Demirtaş | 29 | |
Participatory Democracy Party |
KADEP | Kurdish minority interests | Şerafettin Elçi | 1 |
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