National Salvation Party

National Salvation Party Millî Selamet Partisi
Founder	Necmettin Erbakan
Founded	1972
Dissolved	1981
Preceded by	National Order Party
Headquarters	Ankara
Ideology	Islamist Millî Görüş
Religion	Islam
Politics of Turkey Political parties Elections

The National Salvation Party (Turkish: Millî Selâmet Partisi, MSP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned National Order Party (Millî Nizam Partisi, MNP). The party was led by Necmettin Erbakan. The party grew more popular, in 1973 elections it gained 11.8% of votes and was granted 48 seats in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, in 1977 elections it gained 8.56% of votes and won 24 seats.^[1] In 1974 it formed the coalition government with the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) of Bülent Ecevit. MSP was closed down after the 1980 military coup.^[2]

It was succeeded by the Welfare Party (RP), which was founded in 1983.

Footnotes

1. ^ Atacan 2005, 191.
2. ^ Atacan 2005, 187.

References

• Atacan, Fulya (2005). "Explaining Religious Politics at the Crossroad: AKP-SP". Turkish Studies 6 (2): 187–199. doi:10.1080/14683840500119510. 

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