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898:) regardless of their ideology, on 16 October 1981. For approximately one and half year, there were no political parties. Finally, the MGK decided to allow the formation of new parties with severe restrictions. The new parties were not allowed to use the names of former parties and senior politicians were not allowed to be charter member of the new parties. Furthermore, the MGK had the power of rejecting the charter members. Any party without a certain number of charter members was not allowed to run for the election. (This power was called 197: 1242: 756: 869:. In this context, SODEP pursued a strategy that aimed at democratising the capitalist system and the bourgeois parliamentary regime as much as possible, social justice reforms in favour of the working classes in income distribution and reforms that expanded the space for freedom in social life. 914:, which is usually credited as the founder of Turkish republic in 1923. There were many newly founded parties, and it proved difficult to reach voters without referring to the names of the former parties and politicians. As such, the party's founders asked 988:. In this election, while SODEP finished second with 23.4 percent of the vote, the HP received only a modest 8.8 percent. It was clear that the choice of ex-CHP voters was SODEP - although the HP was still the main opposition party in parliament. 983:
After the 1983 elections, the MGK lost its former veto power, and Erdal İnönü became the chairman of the party for the second time, on 18 December (just 42 days after 1983 elections). SODEP quickly qualified for the next elections, which were the
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Twenty-one charter members of SODEP, including İnönü, were rejected on 23 June by the MGK. However, the party was not closed and the founders decided to continue with new charter members. The new chairman was
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whose name had not been rejected. But due to ensuing vetoes, the party was unable to qualify to enter the parliamentary elections (like most of the other parties) which was held on
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power by the newspapers). This gave MGK the power to limit the number of parties that would stand in the coming parliamentary elections.
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to be the chairman of the party. İnönü was a physics professor who had never been in politics; however, he was the son of
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Birol Ali Yeşilada (Winter 1988). "Problems of Political Development in the Third Turkish Republic".
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The short and turbulent history of the party was documented both by Erdal İnönü and by Cezmi Kartay.
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Although SODEP, which existed in Turkish political life for a short period of time, was a
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was one of the two main parties of Turkey in early 1980s but later on merged with the
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There was a considerable public pressure on both parties to merge. Erdal İnönü and
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SODEP was founded on 6 July 1983 by former supporters of the banned
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party that wanted to bring together the electorate of the dissolved
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was that it focused on adopting and implementing the ideology of
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Index

SODEP
Leader
Erdal İnönü
Cezmi Kartay
SHP
Ankara
Ideology
Social democracy
Political position
Centre-left
Olive
orange
Politics of Turkey
Political parties
Elections
Politics of Turkey

Constitution
History
Secularism
Human rights
LGBT rights
Legislature
Grand National Assembly
Speaker
Numan Kurtulmuş
Leader of the Main Opposition
Özgür Özel
Political parties
Executive

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