Felicity Party
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Felicity Party Saadet Partisi | |
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Right-wing[5] | |
National affiliation | Felicity and Future Alliance |
Colours | Hot pink (customary) |
Grand National Assembly | 20 / 600 |
Metropolitan municipalities | 0 / 30 |
Provinces | 0 / 51 |
District municipalities | 1 / 973 |
Belde Municipalities | 3 / 390 |
Metropolitan municipality councillors | 9 / 2,591 |
Provincial councillors | 3 / 1,251 |
Municipal Assemblies | 295 / 20,498 |
Party flag | |
Website | |
saadet | |
The Felicity Party (Turkish: Saadet Partisi, SAADET) is an Islamist Turkish political party. It was founded in 2001, and mainly supported by conservative Muslims in Turkey.
It was founded on 20 July 2001 after the
The Felicity Party's vote has been weakened by the success of the moderately Islamic Justice and Development Party government. It has repeatedly condemned the Turkish government's desire to join the European Union, and relationship with Israel and the United States. It has argued that Turkey must adapt its military and foreign policy stance to meet what it argues are increasing threats coming from the West to all Muslim countries. The Party's platform is based strongly around Necmettin Erbakan's ideas and philosophy.
History
The Felicity Party has not been particularly successful electorally, polling just 2.5% of the vote in the
National Alliance
In preparation for the
The
The candidate lists were drawn up such that BBP candidates were placed top in electoral districts in which they won more votes than the SP in 2011, while SP candidates were placed top in provinces in which the SP had beaten the BBP in 2011. This meant that an SP candidate was placed first in 55 provinces, while a BBP candidate was placed first in 30. The remaining positions subsequently alternated between SP and BBP candidates.
Nation Alliance
The party participated in the Nation Alliance in the 2018 general elections with the Republican People's Party (CHP), Good Party (İYİ), and Democrat Party (DP).[9]
In 2022, the party took part in the establishment of the
Since 2023
On July 6, 2023, SP and the Future Party formed a parliamentary group under SP's banner, and competed in the 2024 local election in an electoral alliance.[11][12] Saadet received 1.09%, and Gelecek 0.07%, of the electorate.
Political positions
The Felicity Party works both as a political party and an enormous social organization. It has party branches in nearly every district, small town and city in the country.
In the past, it has organized demonstrations on a wide range of issues, often involving tens of thousands of participants. Thousands of protesters joined SP organized demonstrations against the
SP has been accused by Arab and pro-government commentators of pursuing pro-Iranian views due to former SP leader Mustafa Kamalak's comments and visits to Iran.[16][17][18]
Party leaders
# | Leader (Birth–Death) |
Portrait | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Recai Kutan (1930–) |
20 July 2001 | 11 May 2003 | |
2 | Necmettin Erbakan (1926–2011) |
11 May 2003 | 30 January 2004 | |
(1) | Recai Kutan (1930–) |
8 April 2006 (acting from 30 January 2004) |
26 October 2008 | |
3 | Numan Kurtulmuş (1959–) |
26 October 2008 | 17 October 2010 | |
(2) | Necmettin Erbakan (1926–2011) |
17 October 2010 | 27 February 2011 | |
4 | Mustafa Kamalak (1948–) |
5 March 2011 | 30 October 2016 | |
5 | Temel Karamollaoğlu (1941–) |
30 October 2016 |
Election results
Parliamentary elections
Year | Leader | Seats | +/- | Position |
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2002 | Recai Kutan | 0 / 550
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Extra-parliamentary | |
2007 | 0 / 550
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Extra-parliamentary | ||
2011 | Mustafa Kamalak | 0 / 550
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Extra-parliamentary | |
June 2015 | 0 / 550
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Extra-parliamentary | ||
November 2015 | 0 / 550
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Extra-parliamentary | ||
2018 | Temel Karamollaoğlu | 2 / 600
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2 | Opposition |
2023 | 20 / 600
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18 | Opposition |
See also
References
- ^ "Saadet Partisi" (in Turkish). Court of Cassation. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ "Erdogan verliert vor der Türkei-Wahl den ersten Bündnis-Partner" (in German). 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ISBN 9781317755098.
Over the last years, it seems that Süleymancılar vote has increasingly become split between the far-right nationalist Nationalist Movement Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP), the Islamist Felicity Party, and the AKP.
- ISBN 9781474416993.
In the nationwide local elections in March 2004, the Islamonationalist Party of Bliss (or Felicity Party, Saadet Partisi, SP) representing the settled Islamist outlook in politics for some time, from which the AKP had departed abandoning its identity discourse for a wider slant, would sink to 4 per cent.
- ^ "Opposition Felicity and Future parties to form alliance for upcoming local elections". 13 August 2023.
- ^ "84-year-old Erbakan elected Felicity Party leader". Today's Zaman. October 18, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
- ^ "SP-BBP işbirliğinin ismi belli oldu: Millî İttifak-İzmir Haberleri". Archived from the original on 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
- ^ Şafak, Yeni (April 12, 2015). "İşte SP-BBP ittifakının aday listesi". Yeni Şafak.
- ^ "Seçim 2018: Muhalefetin kurduğu Millet İttifakı nasıl işleyecek?". BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "Altı Siyasi Parti Genel Başkanının Ortak Açıklaması". chp.org.tr (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ Solaker, Gülsen (7 July 2023). "Gelecek ve Saadet Partisi Meclis'te ortak grup kurdu". Deutsche Welle.
- ^ "Karamollaoğlu ve Davutoğlu Meclis kulisinde vekillerle bir araya geldi". Milli Gazete (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-08-18.
- ^ "Saadet Partisi Genel Başkanı Karamollaoğlu: Kaşıkçı'nın ölümünü nasıl izah edecekler". Anadolu Agency (in Turkish). 2018-10-20.
- ^ "Saadet Partisi Genel Başkanı Karamollaoğlu: Trump'ın dengesiz gidişatı Amerika için tehlike". Anadolu Agency (in Turkish). 2020-01-10.
- ^ "Temel Karamollaoğlu'na göre Kasım Süleymani şehit oldu". Ensonhaber (in Turkish). 2020-01-04.
- ^ "حزب السعادة التركي". Al Jazeera (in Arabic). 2023-02-17.
- ^ "Cübbeli'den Saadet Partisi ile Kılıçdaroğlu arasında İran bağlantısı". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 2023-03-13.
- ^ "Eski Saadet Partisi Genel Başkanı Kamalak: Esad'la görüştük diye bize tepki gösterenler ABD'nin ağzıyla konuşuyordu". Independent Türkçe (in Turkish). 2023-01-11.