National Party (Turkey)
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National Party
Ulusal Parti |
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| Leader | Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Ahmet Mithat Efendi Sokak No: 14 Çankaya, Ankara |
| Ideology |
Turkish nationalism Socialism Kemalism Pan-Turkism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Website | |
| http://www.ulusalparti.net/ | |
The National Party (Turkish: Ulusal Parti) is a nationalist party in Turkey. The party was founded by Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu in 2010.
This party's main idols are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Doğan Avcıoğlu and Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev. Unlike other socialist parties in Turkey, they often criticise Marxism for being Eurocentrist. They describe Kemalism as socialism with Turkish characteristics. They also idolize socialist, third worldist and left-wing nationalist leaders like Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hugo Chávez, Josip Broz Tito and Patrice Lumumba.
This party supports Turkish nationalism against imperialism and separatism, socialism against capitalism, and secularism against fundamentalism.
Despite this party mainly supports civic and cultural kind of nationalism, they also have Pan-Turkist tendencies. They support an aggressive foreign policy against Armenia and Greece. They are against any alliance with NATO, the European Union, China or Russia. They are in favour of a Turkic union.
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