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
Bahá'í Faith in Turkey those "whose killing is necessary." Still in 2001, two Bahá'í university professors at Sivas' Cumhuriyet University faced expulsion. in 2008, a Bahá'í was appointed dean of the Science and Letters Faculty of the Middle East Technical University. The Turkish government supported the declaration of the Presidency of the European Union when he "denounced" the trial of Iranian Bahá'ís announced in February 2009. Because the religion is proscribed there can be no official counts of membership. Estimates by others range from 10,000 to 20,000. The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 21,000 Bahá'ís in Turkey