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
Ulvi Cemal Erkin and best interpreter and they shared a lifetime of dedicated endeavours to encourage and train young musicians with the scanty means afforded to institutions and to build up audiences of polyphonic music throughout Anatolia. Erkin shared the grand prize of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi with Ahmet Adnan Saygun and Hasan Ferit Alnar in 1943 for his piano concerto. He wrote the famous "Köçekçe" orchestral suite the same year. It was Alfred Cortot who gave him the idea of composing a piano concerto during his visit to Turkey, after listening to his Quartet. The same piano concerto and Köçekçe suite was