Political landscape of Turkey

Turkey is a parliamentary democracy with a multi-party system. Major parties are defined as political parties that received more than 10% of the votes in the latest general election (22 July 2007) and/or represented in parliament. Minor parties are defined as political parties that have fulfilled the requirements of the Supreme Election Committee and whose names have been listed on ballots.

Party		Ideology	Political Position	Leader	MPs
Justice and Development Party	AKP	Economic liberalism	Center-right	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	319
Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi		Islamism
		Social conservatism
Republican People's Party	CHP	Kemalism	Center-left	Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu	134
Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi		Social democracy
Nationalist Movement Party	MHP	Social conservatism	Right-wing	Devlet Bahçeli	52
Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi		Turkish nationalism
Peace and Democracy Party	BDP	Federalism	Left-wing	Selahattin Demirtaş	26
Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi		Kurdish nationalism
		Social democracy

Turkey's politics takes place in a strictly secular framework of parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Turkey is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. While the President of Turkey is the head of state, who holds a largely ceremonial role but with substantial reserve powers.

The country's political system is based on a separation of powers like most countries. Executive power is exercised by the Council of Ministers; Legislative power is vested in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.