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National Salvation Party
The
National Salvation Party
(, MSP) was an
Islamist
political party in
Turkey
founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned
National Order Party
(
Millî Nizam Partisi
, MNP). The party was led by
Necmettin Erbakan
. The party grew more popular, in
1973 elections
it gained 11.8% of votes and was granted 48 seats in the
Turkish Grand National Assembly
, in
1977 elections
it gained 8.56% of votes and won 24 seats. In 1974 it formed the coalition government with the secularist
Republican People's Party
(CHP) of
Bülent Ecevit
. MSP was closed down after the
1980 military coup
.
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