Communal Liberation Party New Forces (, TKP-YG) was a

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political party in

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. It is led by Mehmet Çakıcı. It was founded in 2016 after a group headed by Çakıcı broke off from the

Communal Democracy Party The Communal Democracy Party (, TDP) is a social-democratic political party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The party came into being in May 2007 as a merger of the Peace and Democracy Movement with the Communal Liberation Party. At th ...

(TDP).

History

Çakıcı and former MP Mustafa Emiroğluları resigned from the TDP on 25 November 2016. This was followed by the resignation of 70 other members of the TDP, mostly originating from the historical

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(TKP), on 28 November 2016. The rationale given for these resignations was what they saw as "undemocratic" policies employed by the TDP leadership under

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and "the restriction of the freedom of speech within the party" after an election for the head of the

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. This had culminated in disciplinary action against Emiroğluları, with the aim of expelling him from the party. Çakıcı and his fellows claimed that this was because Emiroğluları wanted to change the name of the TDP back to "Communal Liberation Party" and also claimed that no new memberships had been allowed in the party for 6 months. Özyiğit had countered these by saying that "he was not concerned by personal business of this sort". Çakıcı founded the party using the name "Communal Liberation Party" (TKP) on 28 November 2016. In January 2017, Sonay Adem, Ali Gulle and İbrahim Korhan, a group of political figures from

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, resigned from the

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and joined the TKP. In the meanwhile, the High Administrative Court ruled that the establishment of a new party under the name "Communal Liberation Party" should be suspended. As a result of this and an agreement with the new members, the party changed its name to "Communal Liberation Party New Forces" on 19 January. On 13 March 2017, the

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merged into the TKP-YG. On 26 October 2017, it agreed with the

United Cyprus Party The United Cyprus Party ( Turkish: ''Birleşik Kıbrıs Partisi'', BKP) is a left-wing, socialist party in Northern Cyprus. The party was founded in 2003 by İzzet İzcan. It supports the idea of a free, demilitarised and united Cyprus ...

to contest the election together under the TKP-YG list. This alliance was named the "Change and Liberation Alliance". In October 2022, the TKP-YG merged back into the Communal Democracy Party. The party's newspapers were '' Ortam'', which used to be the TDP's newspaper but had Çakıcı as its majority shareholder, and '' Haberatör''.

References

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