Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party is a Kemalist and social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president and founder of the modern Turkish Republic. The party is also cited as the founding party of modern Turkey. Its logo consists of the Six Arrows, which represent the foundational principles of Kemalism: republicanism, reformism, laicism (Laïcité/Secularism), populism, nationalism, and statism. It is currently the second largest party in Grand National Assembly with 126 MPs, behind the ruling conservative Justice and Development Party.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his Prime Minister İsmet İnönü, 1936. İnönü would succeed him as president and CHP chairman after his death.
The Six Arrows statue in the garden of the Grand National Assembly during the 4th Republican People's Party Ordinary Convention, 1935
The CHP (Then known with the acronym "CHF") sponsored many nation building projects throughout the 1930s, such as People's Courses.
Bülent Ecevit with Nicolae Ceaușescu, 1978.
Kemalism, also known as Atatürkism, or the Six Arrows, is the founding and official ideology of the Republic of Turkey based on the ideas and legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
"Sovereignty belongs, without any restrictions or conditions, to the nation" embossed behind the speaker's seat at the GNA
The motto, "Ne mutlu Türküm diyene", embossed on the Kyrenia Mountains in Northern Cyprus
Atatürk's Six Main Principles symbolized by the Six Arrows
One of the lions at "Road of Lions" in Anıtkabir, which are replicas of ancient Hittite lion statues
