The assessment of closure case of political parties in Turkiye by European Court of Human Rights (Such As Welfare Party)

Political parties are the most important elements of democratic political lives. The notion of ?party? which was first appeared in the USA shaped its current situation by developing in 20th century. In our country, the basis of political parties is based on ?The Guards Society? which was founded to protest against the monarch. Later on the missions of parties developed, its collective behaviour improved and political parties functioned for national-defence in war of independence. With the foundation of Republic, the first political party of Turkish Republic, Republican People?s Party, was the power for 12 years, however multiple-party system was tried until this time, these attempts were resulted in failure and multiple-party system was completely experienced in 1945.With multiple-party system, the closure of parties by judgement become a current issue for the first time. Democratic Party and National Party were become the parties which were closed by court judgement. After Consitutional Court, which was founded with Contitutional Laws in 1961, the closure of political parties had a new matter of subject and over-closure cases were begun to be examined by this court. The Constitutional Court decided to close 24 political parties since its foundation.After 1990 our coutry was given the right of petition to ECHR and means of appeals were opened to closed political parties in international field. After this time, a lot of closed parties appealed to ECHR and were recognized so Turkiye was confined to pay compensation. Contrary to the decisions until today, among the political parties appealed to ECHR, the only court that our country was recognized is that ?The Welfare Party? court .The purpose of this mission is to present the ?Closure Cases of Political Parties in Turkiye? with their reasons and to show teh similarities and differences by comparing our country?s decisions with the international cases.Key Words: Political Party, Closure Decisions, Constitutional Court, European Courts of Human Rights, The Welfare Party