It was founded by Kütahya Member of Parliament İdris Bal on 4 November 2014.

Bal had left the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in November 2013 after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fell out with Gülen following the 2013-14 anti-government protests.

Bal highlighted that the party would tackle the democratic deficit within Turkish politics, claiming that the lack of democracy and the politicisation of the judiciary by the AKP were the two largest problems facing the country.

[2] Amongst possibilities that other MPs who had resigned from the AKP might join the DGP, Bal remains the party's only sitting MP.

[3] On 31 March 2015, DGP's leader and only MP İdris Bal resigned and left the party.