Jasmine Movement was established by Afrika newspaper's chief editor Şener Levent.

[2] The movement supports a unitary solution concerning the reunification of Cyprus, but does not oppose a federal solution if the proposed plan will be a transitional stage to the unitary Cypriot state and not a springboard for separate states.

[3] In 2019, the Jasmine Movement participated in the European Parliament elections held in the areas controlled by the Republic of Cyprus.

[5] Also, it was the first in the political history of Cyprus to be participating in the European Parliament elections with a full list of only Turkish Cypriot candidates and received 72.11% of its votes from Greek Cypriot voters.

[6] Union of Cypriots supported the Jasmine Movement in the elections,[7] as the organisation's president Oz Karahan was one of the six candidates in the movement's list.