Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey)

Infobox Turkish Political Party | party_name = Liberal Demokrat Parti / Liberal Democratic Party
party_
party_wikicolourid = DSP
leader = Cem Toker (2005- )
Hakan Çizem (2004-2005)
Emin Şirin(2004)
Ercan Çalı (2003-2004)
Nizam Kağıtçıbaşı
Besim Tibuk (1994-2002) founder
foundation = 1994
ideology = Liberalism
european = none
international = Liberal InternationalFact|date=July 2008
colours = White and Blue
headquarters = Cinnah cad. 22/15 Çankaya Ankara,
website = [http://www.ldp.org.tr/ Liberal Democratic Party] The Liberal Democratic Party ("Liberal Demokrat Parti") is a liberal party in Turkey.The party is a member of Liberal International. LDP was founded in 1994 as "Liberal Parti" by Turkish entrepreneur Besim Tibuk. Besim Tibuk was the consultant of Turgut Özal till he died in 17 April 1993. After the death of Turgut Özal, Besim Tibuk decided to found a new party to emphasize the neo-liberal movement in Turkey.

After failure in 2002 elections, Tibuk resigned. After Tibuk's resignation the party had some leadership problems till 2005. In June 2005 Cem Toker had become the president of the Party.

In 2006 LDP offered an umbrella alliance to 9 political parties both from left and right (including Anavatan and Demokratik Sol Parti) for the basic values of republic against governing conservative democratic party, AKP. However, this plan could not be implemented. Turkey's ruling AKP won 46,7% of the vote in Turkish general election, 2007.

ee also

*Liberalism
*Contributions to liberal theory
*Liberalism worldwide
*List of liberal parties
*Liberal democracy
*Liberalism in Turkey

External links

* [http://www.ldp.org.tr/ Liberal Democratic Party] official site
* [http://www.liberalofis.org/ Liberal Office] official site of the youth organisation.
* [http://www.liberal-dt.org.tr/index.php?lang=en] Association For Liberal Thinking
* [http://www.objektivist.net/] Objektivist Hareket