One-party period of the Republic of Turkey One-party period of the Republic of Turkey The single-party period of the Republic of Turkey began with the formal establishment of the country in 1923. The Republican People's Party (CHP) was the only party between 1923 and 1945, when the National Development Party was established. After winning the first multiparty elections in 1946 by a landslide, the Republican People's Party lost the majority to the Democratic Party in the 1950 elections. During the single-party period, President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk repeatedly requested that opposition parties be established against the Republican People's Party in order to transition into multi-party democracy; in 1930,
History of the Jews in Turkey although there is no known official record for other Turkish Jews who may have died during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. According to Rifat Bali, Turkish authorities bear some responsibility for the Struma disaster, killing about 781 Jewish refugees and 10 crew, due to their refusal to allow the Jewish refugees on board to disembark in Turkey. William Rubinstein goes further, citing British pressure on Turkey not to let "Struma"s passengers disembark, in accordance with Britain's White Paper of 1939 to prevent further Jewish immigration to Palestine. When the Republic of Turkey was established in 1923, Aliyah was not particularly