Labour Party (Turkey) Labour Party (Turkey) Labour Party (in Turkish: "Emek Partisi", EMEP) is a political party in Turkey. Its chairman is Selma Gürkan. The party was founded as "Emek Partisi" (Labour Party, EP) in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name "Emeğin Partisi" (Party of Labour, EMEP), the same year. In 2005, the name "Emek Partisi" was reinstalled after the European Court of Human Rights held the ban was a violation of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The party defines its ideology as "scientific socialism", referring to Revolutionary Communist Party
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and sardonic style making heavy use of symbolic imagery, such topics as Turkey's troubled transition to a modern society and the departure from old values (and sometimes from reason) that it entails. "Şiirler" ("Poems"), a selection of 37 poems of the 74 Tanpınar published in his lifetime, appeared in print in 1961, the year before his death. Between the years 1944 to 1946, Tanpınar served as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Kahramanmaraş (then known as Maraş) . He was a member of the Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), at the time the only party