Green Party (Turkey)

• Carbon-free economy: Greens say that fossil fuel dependency is the main cause of the climate change that has shaken political and social structures, and economic dynamics around the world; and of climate change in Turkey. They aim to stop all fossil fuel use by 2050 and reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. In order to achieve this Greens encourage responsible use of the nation's solar energy and wind power and phasing out the use of coal in Turkey.[2][3]
• Green New Deal: Greens aim for a total transformation of the economy of Turkey by supporting the nation's energy and transport infrastructure change, energy efficiency, creating good jobs, increasing the quality of life, cooperatives, sustainable tourism in Turkey, small scale agriculture in Turkey, care services, alternative and informal jobs.[2]
• Water as a right for all:
  See also: Hydroelectricity in Turkey and right to water
  Greens say that water is a commons that belongs to all humans, other living beings and future generations. Greens will develop policies that will repair the broken hydrological cycle and foster water conservation in agricultural, domestic and industrial domains.[2]
• Good, Clean, Healthy Food for All:
  See also: Environmental issues in Turkey
  Greens will ban pesticides which put the country's biodiversity, natural resources, human and animal lives at risk. We will create a support system to prevent the farmers dependency on companies and pesticides. We will prevent the depletion of natural resources, soil degradation, deforestation and desertification through holistic, restorative and sustainable agricultural practices.[2]
• Gender and Sexuality: Greens say that gender and sexuality in the country is an area of rights, equality and freedom and set out to displace the patriarchal ideology and make structural and relational change in order to achieve liberation for all individuals, women, men and LGBTQI+ through equal citizenship.[2]

Greens Party (Turkish: Yeşiller Partisi) (website yesiller.org) was a green liberal party in Turkey. Being the 57th political party of Turkey, it was established on June 30, 2008 after years of preparation since 2002.

A green party with the same name was established prior to its establishment in 1988 (its founding President was former Health Minister Celal Ertuğ (in Turkish)). The latter was closed down in 1994, and its third and last President was Aydın Ayas, who took the eco-liberal turn for the party.

Greens maintained local branches and initiatives in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Tekirdağ, and Antalya.[4] Greens were known as the Greens of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye'nin Yeşilleri, Yeşiller Partisi) prior to the founding of the party. The party held its first general congress on June 6, 2010.

In November 2012, it merged with the Equality and Democracy Party to form the Greens and the Left Party of the Future, YSGP for short. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices.

After the splitting, Yeşil Siyaset Meclisi was founded with the idea of founding a green party again one day. After 4 years of preparation, Yeşiller Partisi was founded on September 21, 2020 again with 110 founding members whom 55 of them are women and 55 of them are men.

In 2020 the Greens submitted documents to the Ministry of the Interior to register their status as a political party, so their name could be written on ballot papers. In 2021 the Greens filed a lawsuit against the ministry over the delay in providing the receipt stipulated in the Political Parties Law.[5] [6] As of 2022,[6] the party still had not been registered and the case was continuing, although many parties which were formed in 2021 had their documents processed that year.[7][8] The result was that then party was barred from the next Turkish parliamentary election.[9]

• Air pollution in Turkey
• Radical Democratic Union