New Path

Not to be confused with True Path Party.

New Path Yeni Yol
Abbreviation	YENİ YOL YY (de facto)
Chairman	Celal Mümtaz Akıncı
Founders	Ali Babacan Ahmet Davutoğlu Mahmut Arıkan
Founded	10 January 2025
Preceded by	Felicity and Future Alliance
Ideology	Conservatism Parliamenterism
Political position	Centre-right to right-wing
Founder parties	Felicity Party Future Party Democracy and Progress Party
Colours	Blue and white
Grand National Assembly	24 / 600
Metropolitan municipalities	0 / 30
District municipalities	7 / 1,351
Provincial councillors	4 / 1,251
Municipal Assemblies	343 / 20,498
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The New Path (YY; Turkish: Yeni Yol) is a Turkish political party that was founded by the Felicity Party (SP), Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the Future Party (GP) to create a joint parliamentary group. The party's chairman is Celal Mümtaz Akıncı, a former member of the Constitutional Court. In the Turkish Grand National Assembly, it has a total of 30 deputies—25 under its own structure and 5 from the founding parties. With this number, it constitutes the fifth-largest group in the parliament.

Although New Path is officially a political party, it primarily serves as a parliamentary group uniting Saadet, Gelecek, and DEVA, which have different political views. These parties maintain their unique political identities, ideologies, and programs while cooperating on common issues. This structure aims to create a more effective opposition bloc, exert greater influence on parliamentary decision-making processes, and better represent various social segments.

History

Before the 2023 parliamentary election, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) amended the electoral system so that the distribution of parliamentary deputies would be made by votes for specific parties instead of party alliances. As a result of this change, parties could no longer blend votes from multiple parties to get a deputy elected.

Temel Karamollaoğlu, President of the Felicity Party, held talks with the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the Future Party to make a joint list within the Nation Alliance. While the Future Party was in favour of a tripartite alliance, DEVA Party Chairman Ali Babacan refused to enter the elections from the lists of the Felicity Party, so the tripartite alliance was not established. Instead, Felicity Party, Future Party, DEVA Party and Democrat Party (DP) participated in the elections from the lists of the Republican People's Party. As a result of the elections, DEVA Party won 15 deputies to the TBMM, while Felicity Party and Future Party won 10 deputies. In July 2023, the Felicity and Future Alliance consisted of SP and GP was formed. In December 2024, Mehmet Emin Ekmen and Ertuğrul Kaya of DEVA joined the SAADET group to help that group. Mustafa Yeneroğlu, Burak Dalgın and Selma Aliye Kavaf left DEVA in reaction of the upcoming merger.

Members

Joining Date	Party		Chairman		Political Position	Ideology	Total number of MP's in TBMM	True Path MP's
January 13, 2025 (July 6, 2023 as Felicity and Future Alliance)		SAADET Felicity Party		Mahmut Arıkan	Right-wing	Millî Görüş Anti-zionism Parliamenterism	9 / 600	8 / 24
		GP Future Party		Ahmet Davutoğlu	Centre-right to Right-wing	Conservatism Economic Liberalism Parliamenterism	8 / 600	6 / 24
January 13, 2025		DEVA Democracy and Progress Party		Ali Babacan	Centre-right	Liberal Conservatism Neoliberalism Parliamenterism	12 / 600	10 / 24