The Communal Liberation Party ( Turkish : Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi , TKP) was a Left-wing political party in Northern Cyprus .
4-742: The TKP was established in 1976 by Alpay Durduran . It won six of the 40 seats in the 1976 elections to the National Council , and 13 seats in the 1981 elections . In the 1985 elections , the party was reduced to ten seats, as the National Council became the Assembly of the Republic and was increased in size to 50 seats. In the 1990 elections , the TKP allied with the Republican Turkish Party and
8-591: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1976 Northern Cyprus general election Rauf Denktaş UBP General elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 20 June 1976. Rauf Denktaş of the National Unity Party was elected President , with the National Unity Party also winning 30 of the 40 seats in the National Council . The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 had led to
12-574: The New Dawn Party to run as the Party for Democratic Struggle. After losing the elections to the ruling National Unity Party , TKP MPs boycotted the Assembly, claiming that Turkey had putting money into the election campaign to support the government. In the 1993 elections , the party won five seats, and it gained a further two seats in the 1998 elections . For the 2003 elections the party ran as part of
16-512: The Peace and Democracy Movement , which won six seats. The TKP then ran independently in the 2005 elections , but failed to win a seat. In May 2007, it merged with the Peace and Democracy Movement to form the Communal Democracy Party . This article about a Cypriot political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Northern Cyprus -related article is
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