Future Party (Turkey)

The Future Party (Turkish: Gelecek Partisi, GELECEK)^[18] is a political party operating in Türkiye, founded on December 12, 2019, under the leadership of Ahmet Davutoğlu. According to the party's bylaws, its official abbreviation is "Future Party." Its symbol is a sycamore leaf. It has four members in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. However, due to joint group efforts, all four are members of Yeni Yol. Its leader is Ahmet Davutoğlu.

Future Party Gelecek Partisi
Abbreviation	Gelecek Partisi (official) GP (unofficial)
Leader	Ahmet Davutoğlu
General Secretary	Hasan Seymen
Spokesperson	Ufuk Karcı
Founder	Ahmet Davutoğlu
Founded	12 December 2019; 5 years ago (2019-12-12)
Split from	Justice and Development Party[1]
Headquarters	Çankaya, Ankara
Membership (2025)	64,389[2]
Ideology	Conservatism[3][4] Liberal conservatism[5] Conservative liberalism[6] Economic liberalism[7] Pro-Europeanism[8]
Political position	Centre-right[9] to right-wing[10]
National affiliation	Table of Six (2022–2023) Nation Alliance (2023) Felicity and Future Alliance (2023–2025) New Path (2025–present)
Colors	Green, Dark green, White (official)   Lime green (customary)
Slogan	Bizim bir Geleceğimiz var ('We have a Future')[11]
Grand National Assembly	0 / 600 [12]
Metropolitan municipalities	0 / 30
District municipalities	0 / 1,351
Provincial councillors	0 / 1,282
Municipal Assemblies	11 / 20,952
Website
gelecekpartisi.org.tr
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The party supports the strengthened parliamentary system proposed by the country's opposition parties.

History

Formation

The Future Party was founded on 12 December 2019 by Ahmet Davutoğlu, a former foreign minister and prime minister on behalf of the conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP). Having been elected prime minister on 28 August 2014 with the support of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Davutoğlu later opposed the latter's moves to transform Turkey's form of government from a parliamentary to a presidential system. His conflict with Erdoğan culminated in Davutoğlu's resignation from the premiership, effective from 22 May 2016.^[19]

Following his resignation, Davutoğlu frequently criticized the AKP government, which led the party to launch disciplinary actions against him.^[20] In response, he resigned from the AKP on 13 September 2019. He later expressed interest in forming a new party in opposition to President Erdoğan's administration, and ultimately launched the Future Party on 12 December 2019. The new party immediately published a list of 154 founding members which included numerous former AKP officials and affiliates.^[21]

The Future Party opened its headquarters building in Çankaya on July 26, 2020. In the statement made by Davutoğlu on April 2, 2021, he stated that the party was entitled to participate in the elections by the Supreme Election Council (YSK).^[22]

In Parliament

On 6 July 2023, 10 deputies from the Future Party (Mustafa Nedim Yamalı, Serap Yazıcı Özbudun, Cemalettin Kani Torun, Sema Silkin Ün, Selim Temurci, Isa Messiah Şahin, Doğan Demir, Mustafa Bilici, Hasan Ekici and Selçuk Özdağ) agreed to establish a joint group in the parliament with the Felicity Party.^[23]

Policies

Davutoğlu has stated that the new party would push for a new constitution, a return to a parliamentary system, and education in minority languages.^[24] Moreover, the manifesto of the party criticized the current lack of rights for the Kurdish minority.^[25]

Merger proposal to DEVA Party (2023)

When agreement on forming a group failed, DEVA Party and the Future Party considered a full merger to form a group, and the possibility of a co-chairmanship was discussed. However, DEVA Party Chairman Ali Babacan deemed the co-chairmanship unsuitable, stating that it "could lead to dual leadership and a confusion of messages within the party leadership, and would be unsustainable.^[26]

A party official who participated in the talks stated that the parties had considered "the possibility of a future merger by establishing an umbrella party in Parliament," but that this was not deemed feasible. It was also reported that the majority of DEVA Party organizations were unsympathetic to the idea of forming a group outside of the legal entity, and that discussions between the Felicity Party and the Future Party were ongoing, but had not yielded any results.

Establishing a joint group with the Felicity Party

On July 6, 2023, officials from the Felicity Party and the Future Party announced an agreement to establish a joint parliamentary group. Following the signing of a protocol titled "Felicity Party-Future Party Alliance," Future Party deputies Mustafa Nedim Yamalı, Serap Yazıcı Özbudun, Cemalettin Kani Torun, Sema Silkin Ün, Selim Temurci, İsa Mesih Şahin, Doğan Demir, Mustafa Bilici, Hasan Ekici, and Selçuk Özdağ resigned from their respective parties and joined the Felicity Party, enabling the Felicity Party to establish a parliamentary group. Selçuk Özdağ became the chairman of this new group.^[27]

Election results

Başkanlık Kurulu üyeleri

Partinin başkanlık kurulu üyeleri aşağıdaki gibidir.^[28]

#	Adı	Görevi
1	Ahmet Davutoğlu	Chairman
2	Ayhan Sefer Üstün [tr]	Chairman Parlement
3	Hasan Seymen [tr]	Secretary General
4	İzzettin Küçük [tr]	Head of Political Affairs and Internal Affairs
5	Ömer Ünal [tr]	Head of the Organization
6	Mustafa Gözel [tr]	Head of Civil Society and Public Relations
7	Ali Aydın [tr]	Head of Law and Justice Policies
8	Hasan Hüseyin Bozok [tr]	President of Local Governments
9	Rumi Bekiroğlu [tr]	Head of Election Affairs
10	Aynur Algül [tr]	Head of Family and Social Policies
11	Feridun Bilgin	Head of Economic Policies
12	Engin Keskinel [tr]	Minister of communications
13	Ümit Yardım	Director of Foreign Policy and Defense
14	Selami Çalışkan [tr]	Head of Informatics and R&D
15	Meryem Türktekin [tr]	President of Human, Nature and Environmental Rights
16	Abdullah Başçı [tr]	Head of Administrative and Financial Affairs
17	Yeşim Karadağ [tr]	Head of Women's Policies
18	Muhammed Mustafa Çakmakçı [tr]	Head of Youth Policies
19	Yusuf Ziya Özcan [tr]	Head of Education and Science Policies
20	Alptekin Hocaoğlu [tr]	Head of Health Policies
21	Burçak Başbuğ Erkan [tr]	Head of Food Safety and Agriculture
22	Can Cankesen [tr]	President of Labor and Social Security
23	Ferhat Esener [tr]	President of Industry and Technology
24	Alaattin Fırat [tr]	Head of Commerce
25	Haydar Çiftçi [tr]	President of Urbanization
26	Mehmet Bekhan [tr]	Head of Culture and Tourism Policies
27	Zekayi Doğan [tr]	President of Energy and Natural Resources
28	Mehmet Kuğu [tr]	Director of Transport and Infrastructure

general presidents

Numbers	#	Name	Photograph	mission start	mission end
First and on duty	Ahmet Davutoğlu		19 December 2019	on duty

Parliaments

Members of Parliament serving in the New Road group

#	Name	constituency	Dutys
1	Selçuk Özdağ [tr]	Muğla	Deputy Chairman of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey's New Road Group
2	Cemalettin Kani Torun [tr]	Bursa [tr] (II)	parliament
3	Sema Silkin Ün [tr]	Denizli
4	Mustafa Bilici [tr]	İzmir [tr] (II)	Clerk of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Future Party and elections

Parliamentary elections

The Future Party decided to participate in the 2023 general elections from the Republican People's Party lists.^[29] Nineteen places were reserved for the Future Party from the CHP lists.^[30] As a result of the elections, 10 people became members of parliament.^[31]

Election	Leader	Election Resultss			Chairs		Goverment
		Number of votes	%	±	#	±
2023 [tr]	Ahmet Davutoğlu	In accordance with the additional protocol of the Nation Alliance, he participated in the elections from the CHP lists.			10 / 600	10	Opposition

Presidental Elections

Election	Candidate	First Tour			Second Tour		Sonuç
		Number of votes	%	±	Oy sayısı	%
2023 [tr]	Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Nation Alliance Joint Candidate	24.595.178	44,88% (#2)	—	25.504.724	47,8% (#2)	could not be selected

Local Elections

Election	Leader	City council			Mayor's office
		Number of votes	%	±	Number of votes	%	#	±
2024 [tr]	Ahmet Davutoğlu	53.898	0,11 (#18)	Yeni	34.212	0,07 (#21)	0 / 1,389	New

Interim local elections

The Future Party participated in the 2021 mayoral election in Güney, a town in the Sinanpaşa district of Afyonkarahisar. AK Party candidate Erol Karabacak was elected mayor, receiving 1021 of the 1606 valid votes cast, out of a total of 1709. The Future Party candidate, who finished fifth, received 17 votes.^[32]

See also

• List of political parties in Turkey