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ENG - The Democratic Left Party (Turkish: Demokratik Sol Parti, DSP) is a Turkish political party.
The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup d'état. In 1986 Bülent Ecevit addressed the DSP convention in Ankara, declaring his support for the party. In 1988, Necdet Karababa was elected as the new party leader. However, the next year, Ecevit was reelected as party chairman in the party convention. Two years later in 1991, the DSP received 10.75% of the votes in the elections allowing the party to have 7 seats in the Parliament. This also meant the return of Ecevit to the Parliament after 11 years. In 1997, the DSP became a partner of a three-way coalition government led by Mesut Yılmaz who at the time was the leader of the Motherland Party. - Have you voted in the poll Demokratik Sol Parti ? - Ecevit became the deputy prime minister. In 1998, the 55th government of Turkey was toppled by a censure motion. Ecevit received the mandate to form a new government. He founded a minority government of DSP in 1999 to carry the country to general elections. Following the November 3 elections in 2002, the DSP failed to pass the national threshold getting only 1.2% of the votes and remained outside Parliament. Shortly after the election defeat, Bülent Ecevit announced that he would step down as party leader and leave active politics. In 2004, Ecevit repeated this statement and named Zeki Sezer, deputy chairman since 2001, as his heir. At the 6th extraordinary party convention on July 25, 2004, Zeki Sezer was elected as the new leader of the party. In 2007 elections, DSP formed an alliance with Republican People's Party (CHP). CHP won 20.85% of the votes and DSP got 13 seats. The term Demokratik Sol was created by Bülent Ecevit in his late CHP period, as a mix of social democracy, democratic socialism, secularism and patriotism. The symbol of the, white dove (Ak Güvercin) was selected to symbolize the pacifism and social accordance. DSP approves of Turkish adhesion to the European Union, although it criticized the content of the Customs Union.
Leader: Zeki Sezer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Left_Party_(Turkey) 20th November
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