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,
Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Kocinski, Pat Clarke and Suz Latchford who paid for but have never been given legal title to the villas that they purchased. The named defendants were HSBC Bank USA, N.A., HSBC Group, HSBC Holdings PLC, Mehmet Ali Talat, and TRNC. Turkey was dropped as defendant on 16 February 2010 and the lawsuit name was subsequently revised to "Toumazou et al v. Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". On 30 September 2014, the court dismissed the case with prejudice for lack of jurisdiction. Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al., was a class action suit