The Social Democracy Party (Turkish: Sosyal Demokrasi Partisi, abbreviated SODEP) of Turkey was one of the two main parties of Turkey in early 1980s but later on merged with the People's Party to form the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) in 1985. The night of 15 July is held up by the government and its supporters as a sign of Turkey's democratic maturity: when more than 240 people were killed on … The night of 15 July is held up by the government and its supporters as a sign of Turkey's democratic maturity: when more than 240 people were killed on …

Democratic People's Party (Turkish: Demokratik Halk Partisi, DEHAP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey.DEHAP was founded 24 October 1997. Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP has been described as becoming increasingly authoritarian. It was the continuation of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP), which was banned in March 2003 by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that it supported the Kurdistan Workers Party. Even before the constitutional referendum in 2017 the Council of Europe said the country had autocratic tendencies and warned of a "dramatic regression of [Turkey's] democratic order". Turkey’s anti-democratic turn has all taken place without much notice from the outside world. Nevertheless, Turkey today is a fairly stable country, where the vast majority of political groups agree that political competition should stay within the framework of a democratic parliamentary system.