Freedom and Socialism Party | |
Native Name: | Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi |
Native Name Lang: | Turkish |
Abbreviation: | ÖSP[1] |
Chairman: | Sinan Çiftyürek[2] |
Headquarters: | Ankara, Turkey |
Ideology: | Democratic socialism Marxism Pro-Kurdish federalism Anti-imperialism |
Position: | Far-left |
Membership Year: | 2024 |
Membership: | 99[3] |
Country: | Turkey |
The Freedom and Socialism Party (Turkish: Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi, ÖSP) is a Kurdish-based democratic socialist and federalist political party in Turkey. The party mentioned as Partiya Azadî û Sosyalîzmê in Kurdish.
Communist Party of Kurdistan cadres including Sinan Çiftyürek and Mehmet Akyol announced the founding of a new frame for a legal party named Mesopotamia Socialist Party (Mezopotamya Sosyalist Partisi) after a November 2003 meeting in Gaziantep.[4] [5] The initiative for Mesopotamia Socialist Party merged with the Socialist Party Founders Committee, another faction of Kurdish socialists in October 2010.[6] [7] The new group was named the Freedom and Socialism Party and it was officially founded on 19 December 2011 with Çiftyürek as the chairman.[8]
Founder and chairman Sinan Çiftyürek describes the Freedom and Socialist Party as "a workers' party with a socialist line" and with no particular ethnic emphasis albeit its Kurdish background.[8] The party propagates a federation of Turkish and Kurdish peoples "on a condition of equality".[8]