Great Unity Party

Great Unity Party
Büyük Birlik Partisi
Great Unity Party Büyük Birlik Partisi
Abbreviation	BBP
Leader	Mustafa Destici
Founded	29 January 1993
Split from	Nationalist Task Party
Headquarters	Ankara
Youth wing	Alperen Hearths
Membership(2024)	112,277
Ideology	Turkish Islamonationalism; SunniIslamism; Turkishultranationalism; Islamokemalism; Social conservatism; National conservatism
Political position	Far-right
National affiliation	People's Alliance
Colours	RedWhite
Grand National Assembly	0 / 600
Metropolitan municipalities	0 / 30
Provinces	1 / 51
District municipalities	14 / 973
Belde Municipalities	5 / 390
Provincial councillors	6 / 1,251
Municipal Assemblies	261 / 20,952
Website
	www.bbp.org.tr
	Politics of Turkey; Political parties; Elections;

TheGreat Unity Party(Turkish:Büyük Birlik Partisi,BBP) is afar-right Sunni Islamist political party in Turkey,created on 29 January 1993 byMuhsin Yazıcıoğlu,who broke off from theNationalist Task Party(predecessor of the modernMHP) after a quarrel withAlparslan Türkeş.^[5]The BBP's youth wing is theAlperen Hearths.

History

Although it is claimed that the founder of the partyMuhsin Yazıcıoğluleft theNationalist Movement Party(Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) for lack of religious convictions, this should be seen rather as a speculation as Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu rarely blamed the MHP or talked about the separation. The rift between Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu andAlparslan Türkeşactually started after the1980 Turkish coup d'état.Alparslan Türkeş defended himself in the infamous speech in which he declared "My opinions and beliefs are of the same as the generals who organized the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, yet I am in prison" speech during trials after the coup. The ideological separation started then and reached the surface after Alparslan Türkeş dismissed the Ankara headquarters of the MHP after the 1992 MHP Congress. The delegates had elected the candidate supported byMuhsin Yazıcıoğlurather than the candidate of Alparslan Türkeş environment. Türkeş's dismissal, seen to show an anti-democratic approach, was the final blow to the relationship between the young circle who had suffered during the 1980 coup, and the old guard which circled around Alparslan Türkeş.

The party has been represented in theParliamentonly via electoral coalitions with popular parties. At the 2002legislative elections,the party won 1.1% of the popular vote and no seats; in the2007 electionsMuhsin Yazıcıoğlu was elected as an independent. In2009 local electionsthe BBP's candidate was elected as the new mayor ofSivas.

2009 helicopter crash and death of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu

On 25 March 2009, the leader of the BBP,Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu,died in ahelicopter crashin south-eastern Turkey.^[6]A large search and rescue operation was conducted in the mountainous area aroundGöksuninKahramanmaraş Province.The helicopter wreckage was found 47 hours after the crash, and all six people on board were found dead. İsmail Güneş, a reporter of theIhlas News Agency,who was accompanying Yazıcıoğlu, initially survived the crash and placed a desperate call for help just after the crash, and reported a broken leg. By the time the search party located the crash site in the inclement weather, all six aboard, including Güneş, were dead.^[6]Yazıcıoğlu had been traveling fromÇağlayanceritinKahramanmaraş ProvincetoYerköyinYozgat Provincein centralAnatoliafor another political rally beforelocal elections on 29 Marchwhen the chartered helicopter crashed.^{[citation needed]}

2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla

A delegation representing the BBP participated in theGaza Freedom Flotillaon board the shipMV Mavi Marmarain May 2010.^[7]

Ideology and political positions

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu affirmed the BBP's goal for Turkey by saying: "our cause is 'we love the creation because of the creator'. We do not separate people asLaz,Circassian,orKurdish,we will not separate them. We are people living in the same land and under the same flag. Kurds are our brother, PKK is our enemy. We need to see this difference. We are against gangs,the mafia,and ajunta.We want to have real deputies in theTBMM.Let the legislate, the executive, the judiciary be separate. Limitimmunities.Let the speech of politicians on the podium be free. The party of the politician who gave his opinion should not be closed. "AboutErgenekonhe said "If there is a junta, if there is a gang, let it all be engraved. Let Turkey really be a democratic country".^[8]

In 2016, theAlperenthreatened to stop theannual gay pride march in Istanbul.Alperen's Istanbul chief,Kürşat Mican,stated:

Degenerates will not be allowed to carry out their fantasies on this land...We're not responsible for what will happen after this point... We do not want people to walk around half-naked with alcohol bottles in their hands in thissacredcity watered by the blood of our ancestors.^[9]

Party leaders

#	Leader (birth–death)	Took office	Left office
1	Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (1954–2009)	23 January 1993	25 March 2009
2	Yalçın Topçu (1957–)	24 May 2009	12 June 2011
–	Hakkı Öznur(acting)	12 June 2011	3 July 2011
3	Mustafa Destici (1966–)	3 July 2011	7 April 2015
–	Hakkı Öznur(acting)	7 April 2015	12 July 2015
(3)	Mustafa Destici (1966–)	12 July 2015	Incumbent

References

^"Büyük Birlik Partisi"(in Turkish).Court of Cassation.Retrieved10 January2022.
^Göçek, Fatma Müge(2015).Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009.Oxford University Press. p. 402.ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9.
^"BBP lideri Destici'den Atatürk yorumu: Bu çirkin saldırı büyük bir ahlaksızlıktır".Milliyet(in Turkish). 20 September 2023.Retrieved18 March2024.
^"Ruling AKP looks to extend alliance with two parties".duvarenglish.com.Archivedfrom the original on 11 March 2023.Retrieved18 May2023.Haberden alıntı:"...and far-right conservative Great Unity Party (BBP)"
^Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu's biography Archived2 April 2009 at theWayback Machine(in Turkish)
^^a ^bOnline, Hurriyet Daily News (27 March 2009)."Six including far-right Turkish party leader killed in helicopter crash".www.hurriyet.com.tr(in Turkish).Retrieved5 April2019.
^"Archived copy".Archived fromthe originalon 4 June 2010.Retrieved8 June2010.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^Haber7."Yazıcıoğlu: Kürtler kardeşimiz PKK düşmanımız".Haber7(in Turkish).Retrieved5 November2023.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^"Istanbul bans gay pride march after threats from hardline group".Reuters.17 June 2016.Retrieved16 March2019.

External links

Official website(in Turkish)

[1] "Büyük Birlik Partisi"(in Turkish).Court of Cassation.Retrieved10 January2022.

[2] Göçek, Fatma Müge(2015).Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009.Oxford University Press. p. 402.ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9.

[3] "BBP lideri Destici'den Atatürk yorumu: Bu çirkin saldırı büyük bir ahlaksızlıktır".Milliyet(in Turkish). 20 September 2023.Retrieved18 March2024.

[4] "Ruling AKP looks to extend alliance with two parties".duvarenglish.com.Archivedfrom the original on 11 March 2023.Retrieved18 May2023.Haberden alıntı:"...and far-right conservative Great Unity Party (BBP)"

[bio-5] Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu's biography Archived2 April 2009 at theWayback Machine(in Turkish)

[:0-6] Online, Hurriyet Daily News (27 March 2009)."Six including far-right Turkish party leader killed in helicopter crash".www.hurriyet.com.tr(in Turkish).Retrieved5 April2019.

[7] "Archived copy".Archived fromthe originalon 4 June 2010.Retrieved8 June2010.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[8] Haber7."Yazıcıoğlu: Kürtler kardeşimiz PKK düşmanımız".Haber7(in Turkish).Retrieved5 November2023.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[Reuters-9] "Istanbul bans gay pride march after threats from hardline group".Reuters.17 June 2016.Retrieved16 March2019.

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