JANUARY 02, 2008

ÖDP’S CALL TO CONSERVE İZMİRALTİ

Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP) İzmir branch have published a press statement about the city of Izmir’s demand to be the home owner of the EXPO organization which is being arranged by International Exhibitions Bureau...

AUGUST 06, 2007

ÖDP BECOMES SIXTH PARTY IN PARLIAMENT

Only three parties actually passed the ten percent threshold allowing a party to take up seats in the parliament...

JULY 27, 2007

UFUK URAS ‘FIRST SOCIALIST IN PARLIAMENT IN 38 YEARS’

Ufuk Uras, head of the socialist Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), who was elected to Parliament as an independent candidate from İstanbul’s first electoral district, was certified officially as a legislator on Thursday...

JULY 06, 2007

JOINT INITIATIVE OF ODP AND SYNASPISMOS

The Party of the European Left welcomes and supports the joint initiative of ODP and Synaspismos for a first common campaign of both EL Member parties for mutual reduction of armaments and military budgets of Greece and Turkey.

DECEMBER 16, 2007

COUNTDOWN FOR CARGILL

Chairman of the Freedom and Solidarity Party and member of the parliament in behalf of left Ufuk Uras gave to the parliament a motion to question with the demand of a reply from the minister of the interior Prof. Dr. Besir Atalay about Cargill Agriculture and Food Trade Inc. On the motion to question, Uras said is the abeyance of the court decisions and making changes on the public acts and laws to not to apply court decisions not a contradiction with the definition of the rule of law...

JULY 24, 2007

EL MESSAGE TO ODP ON THE RESULTS OF THE TURKISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS

The Party of the European Left welcomes the representation of Left voices in the Turkish parliament after the successful elections for Kurdish and Turkish democratic deputies, including the election of ODP’s chairperson Ufuk Uras as an MP of Istanbul. We congratulates the ODP as EL member party for its success to achieve parliamentary representation.