List of illegal political parties in Turkey

Illegal political parties in Turkey lists those organisations founded in or carried out activities mainly targeted to Turkey that (a) consider themselves to be political parties as indicated in their self-assigned names, (b) are not or cannot be established under the laws of Republic of Turkey.

[1] According to Counter-Terrorism and Operations Department of Directorate General for Security (Turkish police) there are 13 active terrorist organisations in Turkey[2][3] 11 of which are illegal political parties: Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan (TAK), that is Kurdistan Freedom Hawks in Kurdish, is not on the list despite being designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States, EU and the UK.

However US designation of TAK as a terrorist organisation has taken place in January 2008.

According to H. A. Özhan there are eight important organisations that are illegal political parties in the history of modern Turkey.

The other seven are as follows: Other organisations that can be categorized as illegal political parties in Turkey include the following: