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True Path Party

political party, Turkey

Also known as: DYP, Doǧru Yol Partisi, TPP

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association with Erbakan

In Necmettin Erbakan
A centre-right coalition of the True Path (Doğru Yol) and Motherland (Anavatan) parties then held power until internal disagreements brought it down in June. Erbakan was again asked to try to form a coalition, and this time, when Tansu Çiller, head of the True Path Party, agreed to join him,…
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role in Turkey

In Turkey: The Kurdish conflict
…as the leader of the True Path Party (TPP; founded 1983), which won about one-fifth of the vote. Erdal İnönü, the son of İsmet İnönü, led the Social Democratic and Populist Party (SDPP; founded 1985), which gained one-fourth of the vote. Erbakan’s new Welfare Party (WP; an Islamic party) and…
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role of Çiller

In Tansu Çiller
Çiller joined the ruling True Path Party (Doğru Yol Partisi; DYP) in 1990. The following year she was elected to parliament and was named economics minister in Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel’s coalition government. Although she advocated greater privatization of state-owned firms and a balanced budget, it was during her…
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