The Social Democratic People's Party (Turkish: Sosyaldemokrat Halk Partisi) or SHP was a Turkish liberal socialist and a social-democratic political party established in 2002 by Murat Karayalçın, former Ankara Metropolitan Mayor (1989-1993) and Foreign Minister (1994-1995).

Following Karayalçın's resignation from the Republican People's Party, a number of social democrats, secular leftists, and liberal socialists came together to establish SDHP.

The SDHP had most of its policies in common with the former and short-lived Populist Party with the different abbreviation.

The party did not participate in the general election of 2007 to avoid fragmenting the left vote.

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