Communal Democracy Party
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Communal Democracy Party
Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi |
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| Leader | Cemal Özyiğit |
| Founded | May 2007 |
| Merger of | TKP and BDH |
| Headquarters | North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus |
| Ideology |
Social democracy United Cyprus Cypriotism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (consultative) |
| Colours | Red, Blue, White |
| Parliament: |
2 / 50
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| Municipalities: |
1 / 28
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| Website | |
| tdpkibris.org | |
The Communal Democracy Party (Turkish: Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi, TDP) is a social-democratic political party in the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The party came into being in May 2007 as a merger of the Peace and Democracy Movement with the Communal Liberation Party. At the 2009 legislative elections for the Assembly of the Republic in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the TDP, in its first ever elections, won 2 out of 50 seats and 6.87% of the popular vote. In 2013, it took part in the interim Siber cabinet with three ministers. At the 2013 legislative elections, the party increased its share of the vote to 7.41% and its number of MPs to 3. The TDP currently holds the mayorship of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality with Mehmet Harmancı.
In November 2016, MP Mehmet Çakıcı, the founder of the party and its leader until 2013, resigned from the party, along with former MP Mustafa Emiroğulları as well as 70 other members including the former Minister of Agriculture Sami Dayıoğlu. Many of these members had originated from the Communal Liberation Party and they criticised what they saw as the nepotism by Cemal Özyiğit. They went on to form a new party under the same name as their political origin.
On 13 March 2015, Mustafa Akıncı, a former member of the parliament from the party, successfully completed his application to run for presidency, and was endorsed by the Communal Democracy Party.
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