National Women's Party of Turkey

The National Women's Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Ulusal Kadınlar Partisi, TUKP for short) was a former Turkish political party, founded in 1972 by Mübeccel Göktuna in Istanbul. The goal of the party was to increase women's participation in politics. The party was still establishing enough branch offices to meet legal requirements to be registered for the election when the activities of all Turkish parties were suspended as a result of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. In 1981 the party was closed by the military rule, as were all other political parties. The National Women's party was not revived after Turkey returned to civilian democracy in 1983. In June 2014, however, women's rights activists submitted a petition to the Interior Ministry for a new Woman Party (Kadın Partisi) to be formally registered as a political party.

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