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
Atatürk's Reforms by Atatürk in the initial years of the independence war. In 1924 it was renamed the "Republican People's Party" ("Cumhuriyet Halk Fırkası") and in 1935 "Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi". The single-party regime was established de facto after the adoption of the 1924 constitution. The term "de facto single-party state" is used to define the period as the dominant-party system (in this case Republican People's Party), unlike the single-party state, allowed democratic multiparty elections, but existing practices effectively prevent the opposition from winning the elections. The Republican People's Party was the only elected party in the parliament between 1925 and 1945. There