Freedom and Socialism Party

The Freedom and Socialism Party (Turkish: Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi, ÖSP) is a Kurdish-based democratic socialist and federalist political party in Turkey. The party mentioned as Partiya Azadî û Sosyalîzmê in Kurdish.

Freedom and Socialism Party Özgürlük ve Sosyalizm Partisi
Abbreviation	ÖSP[1]
Chairman	Sinan Çiftyürek[2]
Founded	21 December 2011 (2011-12-21)
Headquarters	Ankara, Turkey
Membership (2024)	99[3]
Ideology	Socialism[4] Democratic socialism Marxism Pro-Kurdish federalism Anti-imperialism
Political position	Far-left
Colors	Yellow, Red and Black
Politics of Turkey Political parties Elections

Development

Communist Party of Kurdistan cadres including Sinan Çiftyürek and Mehmet Akyol announced the founding of a new frame for a legal party named Mesopotamia Socialist Party (Mezopotamya Sosyalist Partisi) after a November 2003 meeting in Gaziantep.^[5][6] The initiative for Mesopotamia Socialist Party merged with the Socialist Party Founders Committee, another faction of Kurdish socialists in October 2010.^[7][8] The new group was named the Freedom and Socialism Party and it was officially founded on 19 December 2011 with Çiftyürek as the chairman.^[9]

Ideology

Founder and chairman Sinan Çiftyürek describes the Freedom and Socialist Party as "a workers' party with a socialist line" and with no particular ethnic emphasis albeit its Kurdish background.^[9] The party propagates a federation of Turkish and Kurdish peoples "on a condition of equality".^[9]