Ecology Democracy Party Ecology Democracy Party The Ecology Democracy Party is a deep ecological political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Founded in 2010 by Ken Pentel, the party advocates a "shift from a human-centered to an ecological view of the world." Pentel was the Green Party of Minnesota candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 1998, 2002, and 2006. He has said his motivation for founding a new party was "the lack of discipline and low expectations among the movements and organizations I have worked with." The purpose of the Ecology Democracy Party is to restore a sustainable relationship with the Earth
Nationalist Movement Party 1980, in a violent "coup d'état" led by General Kenan Evren, the party was banned, along with all other active political parties at the time, and many of its leading members were imprisoned. Many party members joined the neoliberal Anavatan Partisi or various Islamist parties. Party member (Agâh Oktay Güner) noted that the party's ideology was in power while its members were in prison. The party was reformed in 1983 under the name "Conservative Party" (). After 1985, however, the name was changed to the "Nationalist Task Party" () then back again to its former name in 1992. In 1993,