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Two red flags fly side by side in front of a modern building: the Turkish national flag with a white crescent and star, and the CHP party flag with six white arrows. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Six Arrows Kemal Kilicdaroglu, wearing a blue suit and tie, speaks at a podium with microphones during a meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara. Ozgur Ozel, wearing a dark suit, raises his hand while walking with supporters and speaking to reporters with microphones outside in Ankara, Turkey.
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Two red flags fly side by side in front of a modern building: the Turkish national flag with a white crescent and star, and the CHP party flag with six white arrows.
Republican People's Party (CHP) in Turkey (Türkiye) The flags of Turkey and the Kemalist Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi; CHP) flying outside the office of the CHP headquarters in Istanbul. The Six Arrows, depicted on the CHP flag, were guiding principles of Turkish politics through much of the 20th century.

Republican People’s Party

political party, Turkey
Also known as: CHP, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi
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Malcolm Edward Yapp
Emeritus Professor of the Modern History of Western Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Author of The Near East Since the First World War and others.
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Republican People’s Party (CHP), oldest political party in Turkey (Türkiye), created by the country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in 1923 just before the proclamation of the Turkish republic. As the main political vehicle for the secularist and statist ideology of Kemalism, the CHP has traditionally been associated with Turkey’s urban elites—though it has often tried, with limited success, to broaden its coalition to include the working class and the rural population. Although it initially enjoyed...

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