[2] The alliance was announced alongside a supporting declaration, signed by 226 Turkish public figures, including intellectuals, authors, trade unionists, artists, lawyers and journalists.

[3] It had been stated by members of constituent parties that the Union of Socialist Forces was not merely an electoral alliance.

The founding mission of the alliance was to create an independent, non-establishment line for the socialist left in Turkey outside of intra-system politics.

These points were focused on forced nationalisation and anti-capitalism, societal equality and public ownership, anti-NATO and anti-American international policies, secularism and anti-clericalism, especially against Islamic sects in Turkey, and anti-discrimination in the Turkish society.

[3] The USF denoted that the Nation Alliance has "a right-wing, pro-business character" and "will not be able to solve the (real) problems of the country".