Nation Party (Turkey, 1962) Nation Party (Turkey, 1962) The Nation Party () was a Turkish conservative and nationalistic political party active from 1962 to 1977. An earlier party named "Nation Party" had existed from 1948 to 1953, when it was outlawed. The founders of the party, led by Osman Bölükbaşı, subsequently formed the Republican Nation Party ("Cumhuriyetçi Millet Partisi"), which next merged with the Peasants' Party of Turkey to form the Republican Villagers Nation Party ("Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi" – CKMP). In 1962 the name was reused when Osman Bölükbaşı and a group of deputies and senators left the CKMP after a conflict and
Freedom and Solidarity Party the initial groupings left. In 2002 elections, the party's share of the national vote fell further to 0.3%. In the 2004 local elections, the ÖDP gained control of two town halls in Artvin and Yozgat provinces. In these elections, the ÖDP had joined an electoral coalition with the pro-Kurdish Democratic People's Party (Turkey) (DEHAP) and the left Social Democrat SHP (Sosyaldemokrat Halk Partisi). At the next 2009 local elections, Mithat Nehir was the sole victorious ÖDP candidate in the entire republic (17,723 votes for the whole country, i.e. 0.04%), and became mayor of the Samandağ district. Ufuk Uras, who was