The Nation Alliance (), abbreviated as NATION (), was an electoral and political alliance in

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, made up of six opposition parties to contest the

2023 Turkish general election General elections were held in Turkey on 14 May 2023, combining 2023 Turkish presidential election, presidential elections and 2023 Turkish parliamentary election, parliamentary elections to elect 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Tu ...

against its main rival, the

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. Originally established prior to the country's 2018 general election, the alliance had consisted of four opposition parties across the political spectrum, which had found common ground on withstanding Turkey's newly established presidential system. The alliance dissolved in 1 June 2023 following its narrow defeat in the 2023 elections, after the Good Party's announcement that they were no longer a part of it. Although Nation had become inactive as a bloc following their defeat in 2018; the

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(CHP) and the

Good Party The Good Party (Turkish language, Turkish: ''İYİ Parti'') is a Turkish nationalism, nationalist, Kemalism, Kemalist and Conservatism, conservative List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey, established on 25 October 2017 b ...

(İYİ)

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the alliance for the 2019 local elections, which delivered the opposition their first major electoral successes in years. The alliance enlarged, welcoming two breakaway parties from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP); namely the Future Party (GP) and

Democracy and Progress Party The Democracy and Progress Party (, DEVA) is a Turkish political party founded on 9 March 2020 under the leadership of Ali Babacan, a former economy minister under the AKP. The official abbreviation is "DEVA" (''Remedy'' in Turkish) accordi ...

(DEVA). Shortly after the enlargement, Nation Alliance announced its prospective government platform, becoming the first political entity in Turkey to do so prior to an election. Generally, the platform puts a particular emphasis on establishing a strengthened parliamentary system; reversing the current trend of

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, reinstating

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and

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, as well as improving Turkey's

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record. The Nation Alliance of 2018, nominated their individual candidates for the presidency, and the alliance had more of an electoral focus than a political one, interconnecting parties with vaguely defined precepts. The alliance of 2023 strived to act with consensus; laying the groundwork of a potential democratic transition in post-Erdoğan Turkey. The Nation Alliance disbanded itself after it failed to win the 2023 general election

History and background

2017 constitutional referendum

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was held in April 2017, which transformed the political system of Turkey from a

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into a

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one. The reforms were championed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the smaller oppositional

Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party, or alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party (, MHP), is a Turkish Far-right politics, far-right, ultranationalism, ultranationalist Political parties in Turkey, political party. The group is often de ...

(MHP). The constitutional referendum ultimately passed with a narrow margin of 2-3% on an 85% voter turnout. Meanwhile, the main opposition

(CHP), along with MHP now-dissidents such as Meral Akşener who would go onto establish the

(İYİ), voiced strong opposition to the

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s which were deemed undemocratic,

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and seen as a threat to rule of law, democracy and separation of powers within the country. The alliance had brought together many groups with differing ideologies that had campaigned for a ''"No"'' vote against the transition into a presidential system during the referendum, and those who were already in opposition to the government of President

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under a common and unifying banner. As a result; the alliance's supportive bases were viewed as being spread out across many differing political views and ideologies, though unifying under an opposition to Erdoğan and support of a strengthened parliamentary system.

2018 elections and 2019 local election

When the new AKP-MHP government legalized the formation of pre-election alliances in order to contest the 2018 elections together, which was previously limited, speculation arose over the possibility of opposition groups also establishing an alliance. After several sets of talks, the CHP announced on 1 May 2018 the formation of its alliance with Akşener's new Good Party, as well as with the extraparliamentary Felicity and

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parties. In order for the Good Party to compete in the election more effectively the CHP transferred 15 of its MPs to the new party so it could have a parliamentary group. Smaller transfers took place with the other two parties within the alliance, again as political support before the 2018 elections took place. During the 2018 elections, these constituent parties of the alliance contested under a common banner for the

election, while for the

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each individual party nominated its own candidate, though the parties stated beforehand that they would support the leading opposition presidential candidate;

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, if the 2018 presidential election was proponed for a head-to-head second round. On 4 July, following the alliance winning 189 seats out of the 600 seats in the Grand National Assembly, the Good Party General Secretary Aytun Çıray announced that the Nation Alliance at that point had been partially dissolved, citing the lack of a need for a post-election alliance. In response, the CHP's spokesperson Bülent Tezcan expressed that the electoral alliance was no longer technically necessary, but that the unity of the member alliance parties under and in-supporting of a joint set of democratic fundamental values such as separation of powers, parliamentarianism, rule of law and human rights within Turkey were necessary and as such would continue. Though, during the 2019 local elections the alliance came together once again with prominence and achieved overwhelming success, such as winning 6 out of the 7 largest mayoral municipalities, one being

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which had been under the rule of conservative parties for over 20 years, as well as the capital

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. After these results, the electoral alliance this time took a less-temporary lasting stance as an electoral alliance, instead being a big tent political alliance, aiming to unify the dissident Turkish population until the future 2023-24 elections and possibly establish ground for a coalition government in the future.

The Table of Six and 2023 elections

The Nation Alliance held a diverse section of the Turkish electorate. Though the secularist,

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CHP is the de-facto leader of the alliance, and analysts believed the party managed to make inroads with more religious, Kurdish, and socially conservative electorate. The inclusion of the Islamist SAADET and the AKP-splinters

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and

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Parties, as well as the big-tent approach espoused by the CHP leader

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have been perceived as influential for this shift. These developments saw the alliance gain popularity in opinion polls and electoral projections conducted between mid-2021 and 2022 indicating that the alliance would become the largest political force in the country, with a possible majority in parliament following the 2023 elections. From 2019 to 2023, İYİ, CHP, SP, DP, as well as DEVA and GP met as the Table of Six () to formulate a post Erdoğan government. This would include a "enhanced and strengthened" parliamentary system modeled after other parliamentary European democracies, being deemed more democratic and stable from the previous parliamentary system of Turkey, including potentially a new constitution. In the text of the memorandum, lowering the

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to 3%, treasury aid to the parties that received at least 1% of the votes, ending the omnibus law practice, removing the

veto power A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action. In the most typical case, a president or monarch vetoes a bill to stop it from becoming law. In many countries, veto powers are established in the country's constitution. Veto p ...

of the

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and extending his term of office to 7 years, recognising the authority to issue a no-confidence question on the government, human rights and human rights in the education curriculum. There were promises such as the addition of

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courses.' The Nation Alliance shared the Common Policies Memorandum of Understanding with the public in Ankara on 30 January 2023. The first meeting was held on 12 February 2022. The six-table members of the political parties signed a memorandum of understanding by issuing a declaration for the transition to the strengthened parliamentary system on 28 February 2022. The Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) did not take part in the union and declared that it was not interested in taking part in it. The statement came after

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from the CHP suggested the bloc could grant the HDP a ministry in case they won the elections in 2023, which was blocked by politicians of the İYİ party. On 3 March 2023, İYİ leader Meral Akşener announced that she took the decision to withdraw from the Table of Six and the Nation Alliance, and said her party would not support main opposition CHP leader

as the joint candidate in the

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. However on 6 March, she and her party rejoined the Table of Six after intense public criticism and after it was announced that

Ekrem İmamoğlu Ekrem İmamoğlu (born 4 June 1970) is a Turkish politician and businessman who has served as the 32nd Mayor of Istanbul since 2019. He is currently suspended from office temporarily. He is the Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate for the ...

and

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would be appointed Vice-Presidents if Kılıçdaroğlu wins the presidential election. After rival

won both the

majority and the

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in elections held on 14 May 2023 and 28 May 2023, Good Party secretary general Uğur Poyraz stated that the alliance existed for purpose of succeeding in the election, and is now dissolved as the election is over.

Goals and views

The Nation Alliance sought to transform Turkey's presidential system back into a newly modeled parliamentary system, and to establish a new constitution that guaranteed separation of powers, rule of law,

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and human rights such as

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within the country, which all are considered to have been under significant suppression ever since the AKP took power in 2003. The parties within the alliance all have separate

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s, economic recovery plans, proposed projects and diplomatic approaches, though still generally work collaboratively on issues regarding most of these fields.

Stance on the European Union & accession

The alliance stood in-favor of greater

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and EU membership in a whole, thus also aiming to comply with the

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for Turkey's accession into the European union-partnership. Turkey's candidate status, and accession process has been halted since 2018.

Stance on NATO

Although the alliance supported Turkey's position within

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, it also supported the country's mediating and non-belligerent stance in the

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, and believed that Turkey should be reintegrated into the

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program while making use of the defensive weapons (such as the

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) bought from and provided by

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. The parties occasionally criticized the support of some allied NATO member-states for the PKK, YPG and other armed militant groups in-conflict with the country. Unlike rest of the members, the

Felicity Party The Felicity Party (, SAADET) is an Islamism, Islamist Turkey, Turkish political party. It was founded in 2001, and mainly supported by conservative Muslims in Turkey. It was founded on 20 July 2001 after the Virtue Party (Turkey), Virtue Party ...

is known for being the most critical towards Western countries and NATO, Temel Karamollaoğlu harshly criticized American government on many occasions, condemning

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and declaring him an Islamic martyr.

Membership

Members and political affiliations

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Parties providing support for the 2023 presidential election

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, Gültekin Tırpancı ,

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Support during the 2018–2023 elections

In 2018, the presidential candidate of the alliance's largest party CHP,

, was supported by

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such as the national-conservative Homeland Party (YP), liberal ANAP (Motherland) alongside the feminist KP (Women's Party) and 8 more minor parties, while Meral Akşener's candidacy was supported by that of the DSP and DYP. The third largest opposition party, pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) supported the Nation Alliance in many provinces during the 2019 local elections, most significantly during re-run of the Istanbul local election, though took it a generally neutral stance for the elections throughout this period. The party collaborated with the Nation Alliance's mayoral candidates in many cities, but still put out many of its own candidates in other parts of country. The HDP formed its own electoral alliance with other

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parties in mid-2022, the

Labour and Freedom Alliance The Labour and Freedom Alliance ( Turkish: ''Emek ve Özgürlük İttifakı'', Kurdish: ''Hevkariya Ked û Azadiyê'') is a left-wing electoral alliance in Turkey, formed by Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Parti), Peoples' Democratic ...

({{langx, tr, Emek ve Özgürlük İttifakı) which competed separately for the parliamentary election, but supported the Nation Alliance's joint candidate (Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu) in the 2023 presidential election.{{Cite web , date=2022-08-04 , title=HDP's statements on a joint-candidate , url=https://www.indyturk.com/node/538706/siyaset/hdpden-ortak-aday-a%C3%A7%C4%B1klamas%C4%B1-destek-isteyen-ortakla%C5%9Fma-zemini-aramaya-%C3%A7al%C4%B1%C5%9Fan , access-date=2022-11-19 , website=Independent Türkçe , language=tr The Victory Party supported Kılıçdaroğlu's candidacy in the second round of voting in the 2023 presidential election.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

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Parliamentary elections

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Local elections

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Re-runs

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References

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Table of Six
{{Electoral alliances in Turkey Defunct political party alliances in Turkey 2018 establishments in Turkey Democrat Party (Turkey, current) Republican People's Party (Turkey) 2023 Turkish presidential election 2023 Turkish general election 2023 disestablishments in Turkey