Communal Democracy Party

Communal Democracy Party

Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi
Communal Democracy Party Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi
Leader	Zeki Çeler
Founded	May 2007
Merger of	TKP and BDH
Headquarters	North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
Ideology	Social democracy; United Cyprus; Cypriotism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Socialist International
Colours	Red, Blue, White
Parliament:	0 / 50
Municipalities:	1 / 18
Website
	tdpkibris.org
	Politics of North Cyprus; Political parties; Elections;

The Communal Democracy Party (Turkish: Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi, TDP) is a social-democratic political party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.^[2] The party came into being in May 2007 as a merger of the Peace and Democracy Movement with the Communal Liberation Party.^[2] At the 2009 legislative elections for the Assembly of the Republic in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the TDP, in its first elections, won 2 out of 50 seats and 6.87% of the popular vote. In 2013, it took part in the interim Siber cabinet with three ministers. At the 2013 legislative elections, the party increased its share of the vote to 7.41% and its number of MPs to 3. The TDP currently holds the mayorship of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality with Mehmet Harmancı.

In November 2016, MP Mehmet Çakıcı, the founder of the party and its leader until 2013, resigned from the party, as did former MP Mustafa Emiroğulları and 70 other members including the former Minister of Agriculture Sami Dayıoğlu. Many of these members had originated from the Communal Liberation Party and they criticised what they saw as the nepotism by Cemal Özyiğit. They went on to form a new party under the same name as their political origin.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Andrekos Varnava; Christalla Yakinthou (2011). Cyprus: Political Modernity and the Structures of Democracy in a Divided Island. Oxford University Press. p. 469. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ ^a ^b Farid Mirbagheri, ed. (2009). Historical Dictionary of Cyprus. Scarecrow Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8108-6298-2.
^ "TDP'den 70 yeni istifa… Çakıcı: "Tabandan gelen bu fırtına yalnızca bir başlangıç"". Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 29 December 2016.

[VarnavaYakinthou469-1] Andrekos Varnava; Christalla Yakinthou (2011). Cyprus: Political Modernity and the Structures of Democracy in a Divided Island. Oxford University Press. p. 469. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[Mirbagheri2009-2] Farid Mirbagheri, ed. (2009). Historical Dictionary of Cyprus. Scarecrow Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8108-6298-2.

[3] "TDP'den 70 yeni istifa… Çakıcı: "Tabandan gelen bu fırtına yalnızca bir başlangıç"". Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 29 December 2016.

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