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
Religion in Turkey in government buildings, schools, and public universities; the law was upheld by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights as "legitimate" in the "Leyla Şahin v. Turkey" case on November 10, 2005. Separation between mosque and state was established in Turkey soon after its founding in 1923, with an amendment to the Turkish constitution that mandated that Turkey had no official state religion and that the government and the state were to be free of religious influence. The modernizing reforms undertaken by President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the 1920s and 1930s further established secularism in Turkey. Despite