Özet:

Independent Turkey Party (BTP) is founded in 2001. In this respect, BTP is a very young party in terms of Turkish political history. The current leader the BTP is Haydar Baş. Haydar Baş has been continuing his presidency since 18 August 2002 without interruption. He has never done politics before and he has no political background. Haydar Baş is a personality whose political life began with the BTP. In addition to being a political party leader, Baş is also a business man, an academics and a prolific writer. He is known by his followers as "master". The aim of this study is to analyze the BTP, which is participated in Turkish political life quite recently. The first part of this paper assesses the establishment of the BTP and its leader, Haydar Baş, and his position within the party. Later, the paper aims to discuss the way of BTP’s expressing itself and its ideology, as well as the political typology that BTP fits as a party. The final part of the assay focuses on the National Economy Model (MEM) and Haydarism, which form the basis of the party programme. The final part also includes an analysis of the amount of votes the BDP received in general elections.