Freedom and Socialism Party Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi | |
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Abbreviation | ÖSP [1] |
Chairman | Sinan Çiftyürek [2] |
Founded | 21 December 2011 |
Headquarters | Ankara, Turkey |
Membership (2024) | 99 [3] |
Ideology |
Democratic socialism Marxism Pro-Kurdish federalism Anti-imperialism |
Political position | Far-left |
The Freedom and Socialism Party ( Turkish: Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi, ÖSP) is a Kurdish-based democratic socialist and federalist political party in Turkey. The party mentioned as Partiya Azadî û Sosyalîzmê in Kurdish.
Communist Party of Kurdistan cadres including Sinan Çiftyürek and Mehmet Akyol announced the founding of a new frame for a legal party named Mesopotamia Socialist Party (Mezopotamya Sosyalist Partisi) after a November 2003 meeting in Gaziantep. [4] [5] The initiative for Mesopotamia Socialist Party merged with the Socialist Party Founders Committee, another faction of Kurdish socialists in October 2010. [6] [7] The new group was named the Freedom and Socialism Party and it was officially founded on 19 December 2011 with Çiftyürek as the chairman. [8]
Founder and chairman Sinan Çiftyürek describes the Freedom and Socialist Party as "a workers' party with a socialist line" and with no particular ethnic emphasis albeit its Kurdish background. [8] The party propagates a federation of Turkish and Kurdish peoples "on a condition of equality". [8]