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
People's Room People's Room The People's Rooms were state-sponsored Turkish community centers established in the rural parts of Turkey beginning in 1939. The purpose of the People's Rooms was to unite the Turkish people through the expression and manifestation of Turkish culture and Kemalist state policies. The Republican People's Party (Turkish: "Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi"), or the RPP, conceived various means through which to disseminate its nationalist ideology; the People's Houses ("Halkevleri") was one of them. People's Houses were "urban centers" operated by up to nine committees that planned a wide range of cultural, recreational, and even educational activities. People's Houses were only