2 prominent left parties, one is social democrats(CHP), other is kurdish democrats(HDP). Erdogan's party has been winning for 18 years, so social democrats are in a big coalition with a ton of parties, most prominent ones being mild-nationalist social liberals and an islamist party with left-ish economist positions. HDP is excluded from the alliance since some parties in the coalition have voting blocks that wouldn't vote for them if it was the case. It isn't that important since HDP gets their votes from specific regions that allows them to put more parliament members more easily. There also have been rumors of them allowing 2 new center-right parties in the big coalition to take down Erdogan more easily.
Social democrats can't do a lot, since last referendum on presidency gave almost all the power to the president, and parliament is basically useless. They also have been taking in a lot of people with different ideologies, from socialists to center-left liberals. They have a bit of infighting between leftists and mild-nationalists.
HDP's economic visions are left-ish, but mostly they are focused on kurdish rights. Even though party focuses on lgbt and other minority rights, voter base is mostly opposed to that and would vote for a rightist kurdish party if it existed. Their ties to PKK makes a lot of people hate them.
Communist party is a big meme, but they have won in a single province and people there feel very good about their choice. They have eliminated a lot of redundancies, there is free transport, they have renewed a lot of the infrastructure and utilites are very cheap there(it's illegal to have them free). Mayor sold his duty vehicle to open a library, created agricultural coops etc. It's pretty good.
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2 prominent left parties, one is social democrats(CHP), other is kurdish democrats(HDP). Erdogan's party has been winning for 18 years, so social democrats are in a big coalition with a ton of parties, most prominent ones being mild-nationalist social liberals and an islamist party with left-ish economist positions. HDP is excluded from the alliance since some parties in the coalition have voting blocks that wouldn't vote for them if it was the case. It isn't that important since HDP gets their votes from specific regions that allows them to put more parliament members more easily. There also have been rumors of them allowing 2 new center-right parties in the big coalition to take down Erdogan more easily.
Social democrats can't do a lot, since last referendum on presidency gave almost all the power to the president, and parliament is basically useless. They also have been taking in a lot of people with different ideologies, from socialists to center-left liberals. They have a bit of infighting between leftists and mild-nationalists.
HDP's economic visions are left-ish, but mostly they are focused on kurdish rights. Even though party focuses on lgbt and other minority rights, voter base is mostly opposed to that and would vote for a rightist kurdish party if it existed. Their ties to PKK makes a lot of people hate them.
Communist party is a big meme, but they have won in a single province and people there feel very good about their choice. They have eliminated a lot of redundancies, there is free transport, they have renewed a lot of the infrastructure and utilites are very cheap there(it's illegal to have them free). Mayor sold his duty vehicle to open a library, created agricultural coops etc. It's pretty good.