Party Disciplinary Implementations in Millî Görüş (Islamic View) Parties

Party discipline is majorly an effective term on the functioning of political regimes. The term is to provide unity of political parties and has vital importance in respect to the parliamentary system. Political parties are classified with regard to discipline as well as they can be classified according to their structures and functions. All members of parliament of a party have to accord with their decisions of parliamentary groups. They also must vote in accordance with these decisions. If a member of parliament doesn’t vote in line with decisions of the parliamentary group, this MP can be punished with many sanctions including exportation from a party. But sometimes disciplinary implementations of parties deviate from the aim and are used for the purpose of party rule of eliminating opponent names. In Turkish politics, the criticizing the policies applied by the headquarters of the parties opening the opposition flag to the party administrations are contrary to the party discipline and they are referred to the disciplinary committees on the grounds that the unity of the party is defective. The dispatched to discipline committee opponent names generally are punished with certain export sanction. In Turkey, the examples about strong-arm of intra-party opposition movement are quite excessive both yesterday and today. Millî Görüş (Islamic View) Movement has a different approach as to opponent voice in their parties. In this article, the answer will be searched how to respond to the question to opponent movements in three parties of Millî Görüş (Islamic View) Movement as part of Turkish Political Parties Law and the parties constitution. Within this article, two-lists Islamic Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi) Congress in 1977, traditionalists distinguish between reformists in Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi), the white list-green list example in Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi) Congress in 2010 and two different candidates to chairman Congress in 2014 will be analyzed.

Keywords

Party Disciplinary, Intra-party Democracy, Constitutional Law, Necmeddin Erbakan, Millî Görüş (Islam