Neo-Piratism

Tan Doctrine is a group of pirate values initiated by Tan Siret Akıncı, former general secretary and current co-president of Pirate Party Turkey. The doctrine got solidified in the I. Pirate Party Congress held on 15 August 2021.

Icon of Tan Doctrine, designed by a PPTR member named Soner Erdoğan.

The Pirate Values

The pirate values in Tan Doctrine are the following:

• Propagation of classical pirate views like reforming copyright and patent laws, supporting transparency and internet freedom.

• Unlimited free speech in the party and the government.

• Decentralization and direct democracy sustained by open source blockchain technologies

• Establishing a free market economic democracy and evolution towards gift economy by supporting cooperative and indie development models

Governance of Pirate Party

According to Tan, a pirate party must have separation of power in its governance and a strong administrative structure to sustain the pirate values. In the constitution of Pirate Party Turkey, the roles of general secretary and president are extended to secure the status-quo within the party while balancing each other.

For the security and continuity of the party, a pirate party administration should set a clear example to the party members and symphatizers while allowing everyone to get involved in the organization rather than closing itself to other people by fear of securing pirate parties, which have very weak governance and complicated bureaucracy according to Tan.

Identity Politics

While being in support of unlimited personal freedoms and progressivism, Tan is against identity politics as it pushes the party to authoritarianism and outside of main Pirate Values. As a response to the main way of progressive policies set to support identities, Tan suggest supporting freedom only, which enables everyone to have rights in the community. This policy is initially named Liberty First, where personal freedoms are said to be the only solution to identity crisis.