[8] This party's main idols are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Doğan Avcıoğlu and Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev.

They also idolize socialist, third worldist and left-wing nationalist leaders like Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hugo Chávez, Josip Broz Tito and Patrice Lumumba.

This party supports Turkish nationalism against imperialism and separatism, socialism against capitalism, and secularism against fundamentalism.

Despite this party mainly supports civic and cultural kind of nationalism, they also have Pan-Turkist tendencies.

However Gökçe Fırat claims, Kurdish ethnicity and language are artificial, which were created by imperialist powers, especially Tsarist Russia and British Empire.