New Welfare Party
Yeniden Refah Partisi
AbbreviationYeniden Refah (official)[1]
YRP (unofficial)
LeaderFatih Erbakan
FounderFatih Erbakan
Founded23 November 2018
Split fromFelicity Party
Preceded byWelfare Party
HeadquartersAnkara, Turkey
Membership (2024)Increase 365,767[2]
IdeologyIslamism
Millî Görüş
Religious conservatism
Neo-Ottomanism[3]
Anti-Zionism
Hard Euroscepticism
Antifeminism[4]
Political positionFar-right[5]
National affiliationPeople's Alliance (2023)
Colours  Red
  White
SloganMilletimiz için biz varız ("We are here for our nation")
Grand National Assembly
5 / 600
Website
https://yenidenrefahpartisi.org.tr/

The New Welfare Party (Turkish: Yeniden Refah Partisi, YRP) is an Islamist political party in Turkey.[6] It is the successor of the Welfare Party, which was banned in 1998.[7] They adopt the National Outlook (Turkish: "Millî Görüş") ideology.

History

It was founded by former Prime Minister of Turkey Necmettin Erbakan's son Fatih Erbakan on 23 November 2018.[8][9]

On 21 January 2023, leader of the far-right Danish political party Stram Kurs, Rasmus Paludan was permitted to burn a Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.[10] Following the incident, the party protested Sweden in front of the Swedish Consulate-General in Istanbul.[11]

Initially a critic of the AKP regime,[12] in 2023 the party announced Fatih Erbakan's candidacy for the presidential election.[13] However, the party later backtracked and instead joined the People's Alliance on March 24, 2023.[14]

Controversies

The party's Istanbul Youth-Wing’s Vice President, Sadık Tunç, made controversial comments on the 97th anniversary of the abolishment of the caliphate in Turkey:[15] "The days when we will declare Sharia-e-Ghara-e-Muhammadiyyah are coming closer."[16] The Turkish Constitution[17] forbids proposing or calling the abandonment of Secularism (Laicism), or the abandonment of the law preventing it itself, alongside making the first four articles of the constitution untouchable and unchangeable.[18] Their predecessor was dissolved and banned by the Constitutional Court of Turkey in 1998 due to their Islamist agenda under the secularist post-modern coup regime.[19] After the event, Sadık Tunç deleted his tweet on Twitter about the topic.[16]

The chairperson and founder of the newly party, Fatih Erbakan, is also an open supporter of the anti-vax movement during the COVID Pandemic in Turkey. He claimed COVID-19 vaccines could lead to people giving birth to "half-human, half-monkey" children.[20] He also openly but briefly brought up and discussed this topic during several occasions on live-TV interviews.

Policies

The party was founded with the slogan "We are here for our nation".[21][22][23] They specified that their main goals are "First morality and spirituality, then to design the new world order under the leadership of Turkey."[24]

Fatih Erbakan has stated that the new party would replace the current system by a new presidential system, and that returning to a parliamentary system would be harmful. They would also take a strong anti-Zionist position like their predecessor.[25]

The party is against LGBT rights, and has declared that LGBT people are "a perversion banned in every religion".[26] The party's main aim is lifting a law that protects women and children against domestic violence.[27][28]

Election results

Parliamentary elections

Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Election date Leader Votes  % of Votes Seats Position
2023Fatih Erbakan1,515,0342.84%
5 / 600
Opposition

See also

References

  1. ↑ "PARTİ TÜZÜĞÜ | Yeniden Refah Partisi". yenidenrefahpartisi.org.tr.
  2. ↑ "Yeniden Refah Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  3. ↑ "The "New Welfare Party", of which Abdulhamid Kayıhan Osmanoğlu, the grandson of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid, is one of the founders, was introduced at the rally held in Eyüp Sultan Square". 2018-11-24.
  4. ↑ "Fatih Erbakan'a göre ha faşizm ha feminizm". 2023-03-13. Archived from the original on 2023-03-21.
  5. ↑ "Turkish far-right 'unprecedentedly' consolidates voters". 16 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "The threats and possibilities awaiting the gender-equal democracy in Turkey after the 2023 general elections". The London School of Economics and Political Science. 2023-05-11. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  7. ↑ Kızıl, Nurbanu (2020-12-31). "New parties to have little impact on future of Turkish politics, expert says". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  8. ↑ "The New Welfare Party has been formed.. (Turkish)". YouTube.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  9. ↑ "List of "Founders of the YRP"". Memurlar.Net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  10. ↑ "Turkey condemns Sweden protests, cancels ministers' meeting". The Washington Post. 21 January 2023.
  11. ↑ "Yeniden Refah Partisi Gençlik Kolları İsveç'te Kur'an-ı Kerim yakılmasını protesto etti". DHA | Demirören Haber Ajansı (in Turkish). 24 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  12. ↑ "Erbakan: İktidarın emeklilik zamanı geldi".
  13. ↑ "Yeniden Refah Partisi Cumhurbaşkanı adayı Fatih Erbakan kimdir, nereli, kaç yaşında? Necmettin Erbakan'ın oğlu mu?". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 20 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  14. ↑ "Yeniden Refah Partisi, Cumhur İttifakı'na katıldı". Sözcü (in Turkish). 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  15. ↑ Doğrusu.com (2021-03-03). "YRP goes against the Turkish Constitution". Doğrusu (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  16. 1 2 "Yeniden Refah Partisi'nden hilafet paylaşımı: Şeriat-ı Garra-i Muhammediyye'yi ilan edeceğimiz günler yakındır". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 3 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  17. ↑ "The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, Index". www.hri.org. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  18. ↑ "Turkey 1982 (rev. 2017) Constitution - Constitute". www.constituteproject.org. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  19. ↑ See also: Welfare Party#Lost Trillion Case
  20. ↑ "Fatih Erbakan'dan aşı çıkışı: Yarı insan yarı maymun çocuklar doğurabilirler". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  21. ↑ We Are Here For Our Nation! YRP Department of Publicity Advertisement, 2019 (in Turkish), retrieved 2021-09-19
  22. ↑ "Erhürman seçimde Refah Partisi'nin sloganını mı kullanacak?". Gazeddakıbrıs (in Turkish). 2020-03-04. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  23. ↑ "PARTİ PROGRAMI | Yeniden Refah Partisi". yenidenrefahpartisi.org.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  24. ↑ "TÜZÜK; Yeniden Refah Partisi". yenidenrefahpartisi.org.tr.
  25. ↑ "SİYASİ İŞLER BAŞKANLIĞI HAFTALIK RAPORU - 17.12.2020 | Yeniden Refah Partisi". yenidenrefahpartisi.org.tr.
  26. ↑ Ensonhaber (2022-11-12). "Fatih Erbakan: İktidara gelince LGBTİ derneklerini kapatacağız". Ensonhaber (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  27. ↑ "Turkey's ruling alliance welcomes Islamist parties with misogynist agendas - Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East". www.al-monitor.com. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  28. ↑ Aydıntaşbaş, Aslı (2023-04-04). "Letter from Istanbul: Turkey has difficult years ahead". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
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