Social Freedom Party
Social Freedom Party Toplumsal Özgürlük Partisi | |
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| President | Şilan Sürmeli |
| Spokesperson | Perihan Koca Pelin Kahiloğulları Juliana Gözen |
| Founded | 9 March 2020 |
| Split from | Socialist Refoundation Party |
| Headquarters | Süleyman Ayten Cad. Çiçek İş Merkezi No: 37/8 Mamak, Ankara |
| Membership (2024) |  427[1] |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation | Peoples' Democratic Congress Labour and Freedom Alliance Green Left Party (for 2023 elections) |
| Colors | Yellow and Red |
| Website | |
| https://toplumsalozgurluk.org | |
The Social Freedom Party (Turkish: Toplumsal Özgürlük Partisi, TÖP) is a political party in Turkey, founded on 9 March 2020. Initially a part of Socialist Refoundation Party,[2] the group broke away from the SYKP in 2013 and established the Social Freedom Party Initiative (TÖPG), prior to declaring TÖP as a party in 2020.[3]
Perihan Koca is one of three spokespersons of the party, alongside Pelin Kahiloğulları and Juliana Gözen.[4] The party is noteworthy for the focus it puts on women's leadership and women's labour issues, in particular its women's organisation Purple Solidarity.[5]
The party's ideology and political programme is heavily influenced by Hikmet Kıvılcımlı and his works.[6][7] TÖP is a participant of Peoples' Democratic Congress[8] and a member of Labour and Freedom Alliance.[4]
In terms of international outlook, like most of the Peoples' Democratic Congress organisations, the Social Freedom Party is known to condemn Turkish and NATO militarism as well as Russian expansion, as in the case of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9]
Perihan Koca was elected to the 28th Parliament of Turkey in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election from Mersin.
References[edit]
- ^ "Toplumsal Özgürlük Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ "Sosyalist Yeniden Kuruluş Partisi (SYKP) Kuruldu". Ertuğrul Kürkçü (in Turkish). 2013-06-25. Archived from the original on 2022-08-28. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Toplumsal Özgürlük Partisi, "Artık yeter devir değişsin" diyerek yola çıktı". Sendika.Org (in Turkish). 2020-08-13. Archived from the original on 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ a b "Seçimlere 9 ay kala üçüncü ittifak da kuruldu: Emek ve Özgürlük İttifakı". KARAR (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Green Left, "How women are increasingly leading Turkey's socialist movement"". greenleft.org.au. 2018-08-03. Archived from the original on 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
- ^ "Hikmet Kıvılcımlı". Toplumsal Özgürlük (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Turkey's Rejuvenated Left". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2015-06-07.
- ^ "Bileşenler". www.halklarindemokratikkongresi.net (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2022-08-28. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ Price, Susan (2022). "Asian socialists condemn Russia's invasion, NATO expansionism". Green Left Weekly (1336): 18. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
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