[13] In the 2010s, the movement described itself as social democratic and lists among its policy goals reducing Turkey's rich-poor gap, promoting pluralism, and empowering the women and youth.

[16] The TDH attracted some support amongst CHP veterans like Hikmet Çetin and Onur Kumbaracıbaşı, both former deputy prime ministers, alongside former ambassador Faruk Loğoğlu.

[17] Journalists speculated that the TDH could have mobilized female and younger voters, reconnect with the CHP's erstwhile supporters in the Alevi and Kurdish communities by toning down the CHP's strident secularism and nationalism, cut into the base of the ruling conservative AK Party.

[23] After his loss in 2014 Turkish local elections as the CHP candidate for Istanbul, Sarıgül returned to the DSP (Demokratik Sol Parti) platform and participated in the 2019 Turkish local elections in Şişli, where he lost to CHP's candidate with a little margin.

In December 2020, Sarıgül decided to transform the TDH into a party, naming it the Türkiye Değişim Partisi (TDP), which is the 'Party of Change in Turkey' in its current form.