Good Party

This article is about the Turkish political party. For the South African political party, see Good (political party).
Good Party
İYİ Parti
AbbreviationİYİ Parti (official)[1]
İYİ, İYİP (unofficial)
ChairpersonMüsavat Dervişoğlu
General SecretaryUğur Poyraz
Parliamentary LeaderMüsavat Dervişoğlu[2]
TreasurerErsin Beyaz
Founders
Founded25 October 2017 (2017-10-25)
Split fromNationalist Movement Party[3]
Headquarters2120. Cadde No: 9
Çankaya, Ankara
Youth wingGood Youth
Membership (2024)Decrease 508,578[4]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[15] to right-wing[A][16]
National affiliationNation Alliance
(2018–2023)
European affiliationAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
(in the Council of Europe)[17]
SloganTürkiye İYİ olacak!
("Turkey Will Be Good!")
Grand National Assembly
30 / 600
Provinces
1 / 51
District
municipalities
15 / 922
Belde Municipalities
5 / 390
Provincial councilors
14 / 1,282
Municipal Assemblies
484 / 20,953
Party flag
Flag of the İyi Party
Website
iyiparti.org.tr Edit this at Wikidata
^ A: The party has also been considered centrist[18] by some sources.

The Good Party[19] (Turkish: İyi Parti)[20] is a nationalist, Kemalist and conservative political party in Turkey,[26] established on 25 October 2017 by Meral Akşener. The party's name and flag is a reference to the tamga of the Kayı tribe.

The party was formed as a result in a split by prominent former members of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and later joined by some former members of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). The party's founder and chairperson, Meral Akşener, and its deputy chairperson, Koray Aydın, are both former members of the MHP before establishing the party. Plans to form a new party emerged amongst prominent MHP defectors after the MHP's support for a 'Yes' vote in the controversial 2017 constitutional referendum, as well as a failed attempt to unseat the party's governing leader. In addition to endorsing a more moderate civic nationalism as opposed to the ardent ethnic nationalism of the MHP, the party runs on an anti-establishment platform criticising both the governing and opposition parties in Turkey for their ineffectiveness.[27][28] The party describes itself as being in the centre of political spectrum though third-party sources have described the party as being centre-right[33] or on the right-wing of the political spectrum.[39]

It puts a particular emphasis on the restoration of the parliamentary system and the integrity of the judiciary and other institutions.[5][40] The party has been widely described as an anti-Erdoğanist alternative for right-leaning voters disillusioned with both the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP).[41][42][43]

History

MHP leadership challenge

Main article: 2016 Nationalist Movement Party Extraordinary Congress

Meral Akşener, a former Minister of the Interior who served from 1996 to 1997, was a prominent member of parliament from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) from 2007 to November 2015, having been a member of the centre-right True Path Party (DYP) during her ministerial career.[44] Her relation with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli became noticeably strained after Bahçeli refused to nominate her for another term as Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly after the June 2015 general election, a post she had held since 2007.[45] Bahçeli eventually withdrew her parliamentary nomination before the November 2015 snap election, resulting in her losing her parliamentary seat.[46]

The MHP, having won 16.29% of the vote and 80 seats in June 2015, suffered a heavy defeat in the November snap election with just 11.90% of the vote and 40 seats. The loss was widely blamed on Bahçeli's refusal to consider any coalition agreement after the June 2015 election resulted in a hung parliament.[47] The significant loss resulted in MHP dissidents including Akşener launching a drive to unseat Bahçeli from the party's leadership, a process made difficult by the party's strict bylaws. Other prominent MHP dissidents who declared their candidacy for the leadership included Ümit Özdağ, Koray Aydın and Sinan Oğan. Özdağ and Aydın would eventually join Akşener in forming the İYİ Party, as did prominent MHP dissident MPs Yusuf Halaçoğlu, İsmail Ok [tr] and Nuri Okutan [tr].[48]

MHP dissidents including Akşener hold an extraordinary congress, eventually nullified by the courts

With several MHP delegates supporting the dissidents' drive for a fresh leadership election, Akşener and the other leadership candidates joined forces to hold a constitutional convention, claiming they had the right to do so due to surpassing the required number of delegate signatures required. The MHP leadership boycotted the congress and declared it illegal, taking the process to court. The courts eventually upheld the claim that enough signatures had been submitted and forced the MHP leadership to hold a congress.[49] In a controversial move, another court and the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK) both struck down the ruling and asked the MHP leadership to not hold a congress.[50] The move was widely seen as an interference in the judicial process and inner-party democracy by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Ministry of Justice, which both had an interest in keeping the increasingly cooperative Bahçeli as MHP leader and preventing Akşener from mounting a challenge to the government.[51] Akşener and several other dissidents were expelled from the party in the following months, mounting unsuccessful challenges against their suspensions. The constitutional convention held in June 2016 was annulled by the courts in January 2017.[citation needed]

2017 constitutional referendum

Main article: 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum
MHP dissidents hold a 'No' campaign event for the 2017 constitutional referendum

In December 2016, the governing AKP and opposition MHP agreed to put forward a joint constitutional amendment proposal that would change Turkey's parliamentary system into an executive presidency. The MHP's support for the proposals came as a surprise given the party's historically staunch opposition to an executive presidency.[52] Many MHP members and prominent dissidents refused to support the party leadership and began their own 'No' campaigns. Polls and dissident politicians predicted that between 70 and 90% of MHP voters would defect from their party's official position and vote 'No'.[53]

Akşener, Okutan, Halaçoğlu and Özdağ all became prominent 'No' campaigners, with many political commentators seeing the alliance as a signal of a forthcoming new political party united under Akşener's leadership.[54] The referendum was very controversial due to a last-minute change in the ballot counting procedure by the Supreme Electoral Council, causing the dissident nationalists and other 'No' campaigners to allege fraud and not recognise the results.[55] According to official results, the 'No' side lost with 48.6% of the vote to 'Yes's 51.4%, though Akşener alleged that the actual result was a victory for 'No' by a margin of 52–48%.[56]

Party preparations

Following the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, it was announced that MHP dissidents would unite under a new party led by Akşener, with the party's official announcement expected in September or October 2017. During its preparation period, the party was touted as a 'nationalist conservative' alternative to the MHP and the AKP, while endorsing the principles of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[21] The party was also described to be strictly centrist. During the establishment preparations, the names of 'Centrist Democrat Party' (Merkez Demokrat Parti) and 'Mainland Party' (Anayurt Partisi) were alleged to have been selected.[57][58]

Formation

See also: İYİ Party founding convention, 2017
İYİ Party supporters at the party's launch event, 25 October 2017
The Kayı tribe flag from which the party takes its name

The party was announced at a congress at the Nâzım Hikmet Cultural Centre in Ankara on 25 October 2017.[59] On that day, the party's name, logo and slogan were revealed to the public. Meral Akşener was formally elected as the party's first leader—unopposed, carrying all votes.[60]

The party's name, logo and slogan were immediately subject to legal challenges and controversy, with allegations that they bore resemblance to AKP Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel's 2014 local election campaign. Türel issued a statement claiming that he owned the patents as of 24 October 2015. The AKP Mayor of Bilecik, Selim Yağcı, threatened legal action alleging that the logo was stolen from the official seal of Bilecik Province.[61] The Kayı tribe Association also announced legal challenges, claiming that they had the patent to the flag since 2014.[62] A former AKP mayoral candidate alleged that the party's slogan belonged to him and threatened legal challenges if the party refused to stop using it.[63]

2018 elections

Main article: Meral Akşener presidential campaign, 2018

The party quickly gained five members of parliament in the Grand National Assembly who were originally elected for other parties, and numerous provincial and municipal council members that also defected from their former parties.[64] On 22 April 2018, in the run-up to general elections, a further 15 MPs from the CHP moved to the İYİ Party following a joint agreement between the two parties. This was to allow the İYİ Party to form a parliamentary group that would be eligible to field a presidential candidate without the need to collect signatures and compete independently.[65]

Meral Akşener was the party's 2018 presidential candidate, but didn't stand for election as an MP.[66] İYİ participated in the Nation Alliance (Millet İtifakı) with the CHP, SP, and DP in the parliamentary election, receiving 9.96% of the vote.

2019 municipal election

Main article: 2019 Turkish local elections

Akşener continued the alliance with Kılıçdaroğlu's CHP, dividing the country into regions where only CHP and İYİ candidates would run without interfering with each other. Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş won as joint Nation Alliance candidates for the Istanbul and Ankara municipalities respectively, however İYİ failed to capture any provincial or metropolitan mayorships for themselves.

2023 elections

In 2020, prominent İYİ member Ümit Özdağ separated from the party, forming the right wing Victory Party the next year.

On 3 March 2023, Meral Akşener announced that she took the decision to withdraw from the Nation Alliance, and said her party would not support main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as the joint candidate in the 2023 Turkish presidential election.[67] However, on 6 March, Akşener and the Good Party rejoined the alliance after intense public criticism and after it was announced that Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mansur Yavaş would be appointed vice-presidents if Kılıçdaroğlu won the presidential election.[68]

On 31 March 2023, the Istanbul headquarters of the Good Party was targeted in a shooting attack.[69] Akşener criticized Erdoğan after the attack by saying "A political party cannot be intimidated one and a half months before an election. We are not afraid. I fear nothing but God. Mr. Recep, I am not afraid of you. But you are the president and you are responsible for every citizen in this country."[70][71]

İYİ participated in the Nation Alliance with the CHP, SP, DP, DEVA, and GP in the 2023 parliamentary election, receiving 9.69% of the vote. After the election, İYİ's secretary general Uğur Poyraz declared the Nation Alliance dissolved.

2024 local elections

For the 2024 local elections, Akşener refused an offer from the CHP for an electoral alliance. While the Good Party won the mayoralty of Nevşehir province, its national showing collapsed to less than 5% due to most of its supporters voting for the CHP, which won the popular vote. Meral Akşener declared her intention to resign from the party leadership, and was replaced by Müsavat Dervişoğlu, her preferred successor, in a party congress.

Ideology and policies

Meral Akşener giving her first speech as party leader, 25 October 2017

Meral Akşener describes İYİ Party as a nationalist, developmentalist and democratic party that is on the centre of the political spectrum.[72][73] The media describes İYİ Party as a Turkish nationalist, conservative and Kemalist political party on the centre-right or right-wing.[80] The party advocates for a new constitution and a parliamentary form of government and is opposed to Erdoğan's executive aggrandizement.

Although the party described itself as nationalist conservative during its formation period, its ideology represents civic nationalism rather than the MHP's ardent ethnic nationalism.[21] It is strongly in favour of the ideals and principles of Turkey's founding president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[81]

Feminism

Akşener employed populist and radical feminist rhetoric in the early days of her party.[citation needed] In addition to her being the first woman candidate for Turkish presidency in history, Akşener put great emphasis on women's rights in Turkey and made this a central plank of her presidential campaign. She announced that her movement would spark a Tülbent Revolution - named after a traditional piece of clothing which rural Turkish women wear to partially cover their heads, but that is non-religious nor associated with political Islam. It would result in reconciliation of different lifestyles in Turkey, since according to Akşener, respect is more important than tolerance because tolerance usually describes a majority's behavior upon a minority which is not the case in Turkish society.[82][83]

Her campaign drew attention to the drastic increase of cases of violence against women and rape in Turkey under the AKP administration. Akşener declared her pledge to lift good conduct time in all cases of violence against women and rape, and instead of forcefully sending women to therapy in such cases, her party would send the perpetrator to mandatory therapy before or after serving their sentence and therapy for women would be optional.[84] She is heavily against child marriages.[84][85] Although there was an increase in participation of women in the workforce in Turkey, Akşener stated she finds this inadequate and would implement benevolent sexism to increase participation of women in workforce and to reduce the wage gap.[84]

İYİ Party does not have a women's wing. Akşener advocated that women's wings discriminate against women. Instead İYİ Party has mandatory women's quota of 25% for all branches and candidates of her party, including the general administrative board.[86] As of 2023, İYİ party's 43 MP delegation to the Grand National Assembly contains only 5 women, which is a ratio of 11.6%.

Foreign policy

Akşener and her party has promoted pro-Europeanism, and is in favor of continuing European integration of Turkey and close relations between EU and Turkey.[10][87] However she is against a "privileged partnership" and does not refrain from criticizing the certain attitudes implemented by EU in the past process in its party program, stating that "Positive EU-Turkey relations are vital for EU as vital as they are to Turkey, but de facto freeze of the full membership process and negotiations is not only because of Turkey's inability to satisfy all the membership requirements but also because of EU's policy towards Turkey being shaped through interior fears in line with rising racist sentiment across EU in the last years."

İYİ Party supports Turkey's NATO membership.[88] They oppose Sweden's accession into NATO.[89] Listing the party's reservations to vote "yes" for Sweden's NATO membership, the deputy chairman of the party has stated that "Turkey's request for F-16s should be approved immediately".

Other stances

The Good Party identifies the Gülen Movement as the "most serious internal threat" to national security and advocates for an effective counter-terrorism strategy against the group which have been alleged to be behind the failed coup attempt in July 2016.[40]

The party supports the welfare state.[90][22]

The party calls for a full adoption of UNESCO Declaration of Animal Rights.[87]

The party supports freedom of speech, and was against the 2017–2020 block of Wikipedia in Turkey.[91]

After the United States Congress voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide in 2019, party spokesperson Yavuz Ağıralioğlu [tr] said, "We will retaliate against it with our decision to name our children Enver, Cemal and Talat".[92][93]

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Election Leader Votes Seats Position Map
# % Rank # ±
2018 Meral Akşener 4,990,710 9.96 5th new Opposition
2023 5,272,482 9.69 4th Decrease 0.18 pp Opposition

Presidential elections

Election Candidate Votes % Outcome
2018
Meral Akşener		 3,649,030 7.29% 4th

Local elections

Election Party leader Mayoral election votes Percentage of votes Municipal councillor votes Percentage of votes Number of municipalities Number of councillors Map
2019 Meral Akşener 3,351,418 7.76% 3,142,757 7.31%
2024

Leadership

Party leaders

# Leader

(birth–death)

Portrait Took office Left office Term of Office
1 Meral Akşener

(1956-07-18) July 18, 1956 (age 68)

Meral Akşener 25 October 2017 1 May 2024 6 years, 189 days
2 Müsavat Dervişoğlu

(1960-02-01) February 1, 1960 (age 64)

Müsavat Dervişoğlu 1 May 2024 Incumbent 230 days

Board

Source:[94]

# Name Mission
1 Müsavat Dervişoğlu Chairperson
2 Uğur Poyraz General Secretary
3 Enver Yılmaz Deputy Chairman / Director of Political Affairs
4 Ersin Beyaz Director of Financial Affairs (Treasurer)
5 Hasan Toktaş Director of the Organization
6 Şükrü Kuleyin Director of Institutional Relations
7 Hakan Şeref Olgun Director of Juristical, Election Affairs and Parliamentary Relations
8 Ahmet Kamil Erozan Director of International Relations
9 Kevser Ofluoğlu Director of Women, Family and Social Services
10 Ayyüce Türkeş Taş Director of Turkic World and Organization Abroad
11 Cenk Özatıcı Director of National Security and Immigration Policies
12 Cumali Durmuş Director of Local Administirations
13 Selcan Taşcı Director of Media Promotion
14 Erhan Usta Director of Economical Policies
15 Alparslan Yüce Director of R&D-Education and Politics Academy
16 Alper Akdoğan Director of NGO Relations
17 İmren Nilay Tüfekçi Director of Social Policies
18 Kadir Ulusoy Director of Agricultural Policies
19 Dursun Çolak Deputy General Secretary

Parliamentary group leaders

Source:[2]

# Name Mission Mission start
1 Müsavat Dervişoğlu Group President 1 May 2024
2 Turhan Çömez Deputy Presidents 6 May 2024
3 Buğra Kavuncu

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