Republican Party (Turkey) it was a short lived party. On 28 February 1973 it was merged to Nationalistic Reliance Party (a.k.a. Reliance Party), which was renamed Republican Reliance Party. Republican Party (Turkey) Republican Party () was a former political party in Turkey Republican People’s party (CHP) which is usually credited as the founder of Turkish republic in 1923 was the oldest party in Turkey. But after the party adopted the policy of so-called left of center in the 1960s, two groups of MPs broke away from the party. The first group in 1967 founded the Reliance Party. Republican Party was founded by the
Cumhuriyet making a stand against the AKP government's mounting pressure. Shortly thereafter, 's former editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the newspaper's Ankara representative Erdem Gül were arrested facing sentences up to life imprisonment. During the last decade, the newspaper's staff has also been physically attacked, with the 2008 molotov attack against "Cumhuriyet"'s headquarters in Istanbul's Şişli district being particularly significant. Also notable is the attempted assassination of Can Dündar in 2016. "Cumhuriyet" contributors such as Uğur Mumcu, Bahriye Üçok, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Muammer Aksoy, Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Onat Kutlar, and Cavit Orhan Tütengil had been assassinated in the past. By the end of