New Turkey Party (Turkey)

Yeni Türkiye Partisi

Last modified: 2004-03-27 by ivan sache
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by Onur Özgün

• Presentation of the party
• Description of the flag

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• Turkey
• Turkey: Political flags

Presentation of the party

The New Turkey Party (Yeni Türkiye Partisi - YTP) was founded on 22 July 2002 by Ismail Cem. He was minister of Foreign Affairs, then in Democratic Left Party (DSP). In 2002, he left DSP with half of the deputies of the party and founded the YTP.

Onur Özgün, 25 January 2004

Description of the flag

The party frequently changed its flag in the beginning and at last decided upon the one shown above. It is made of a red sphere of white stars with the words Yeni (in blue) Türkiye (in red) below the sphere The image shown above was drawn after the party website.

Onur Özgün, 25 January 2004