Pirate Party Turkey

Party Information

Name:

Korsan Parti Türkiye

Abreviation:

First and Second: KP
Third (Current): KPT

Country:

Turkey

Status:

First: Closed
Second: Inactive
Third (current): In process of refoundation.

Founded:

First: 26.08.2009
Second: 06.07.2010
Third (current): 30.01.2021

Registered:

Not Registered (Co-operates with several registered organizations)

Foundingplace:

Istanbul

Slogan:

Özgür İnternet, Özgür Yaşam! (old)
İnternet ve yazılım özgürlüğünün radikal partisi (current)

Position:

First:
Big Tent
Second:
Syncretic
Third (current):
Left-wing to far-left

Founder:

First: Serdar Kuzuoğlu, İsmail Hakkı Polat
Second: Serhat Koç, Barış Büyükakyol
Second (reignition): Mehmet Şafak Sarı
Third: Tan Siret Akıncı

Leader:

First:
Serdar Kuzuoğlu
Second:
Collective leadership (de-jure)
Şevket Uyanık, Arda Çetin (de-facto)
Third (current): Refoundation Comittee (de-jure)

Campaign finance:

None.

Subdivision:

Youth Organization

eMail:

Second: info@korsanparti.com
Third: korsanparti@protonmail.com

Pirate Party Turkey (Korsan Parti Türkiye), or PPTR (KPT) is a political organization in Turkey.

Websites

http://korsanparti.com/ (former)

Civil Rights and Liberties

Pirate Party of Turkey (PPTR) favors the civil right to information privacy and reforms of copyright, education, computer science and genetic patents. PPTR promotes in particular an enhanced transparency of government. PPTR is a community existed to defend the internet as a realm unrestricted and free of phishing. For global, free and open internet, The PPTR will keep on organizing and supporting protests against the mechanisms of censor, and mechanisms which help to control and trace online privacy.

Civil Disobedience

According to PPTR, civil disobedience movements located on the internet, tries to attract the attention about the concerns and priorities about the fundamental rights and freedoms. The PPTR supports freedom of expression with regard to the to basic ideas, arguments and intellectual viewpoints are motivated by the concept of freedom of information. PPTR is impartial, independent and does not include any form of hierarchy and existed through the motive of “defending freedoms”.

Transparency of Politic

The Pirate Party Turkey (PPTR) (Turkish: Türkiye Korsan Partisi) is a not yet officially formed political party movement in Turkey. PPTR is not supported neither financially nor physically by any form of institutions, foundations. PPTR’s actions performed by single persons who are not “satisfied” with the announcements and explanations of BTK and TIB (the institutions operating the censor mechanisms) and also who tries to tell the world their positions against censorship. PPTR thinks that more transparency reduce the corruption. Politicians shut be better controlled by the people. All transparency ends where privacy starts.

Open Access

The party opposes the dismantlement of civil rights especially on the Internet and other means of communication. The Party also opposes Turkey’s view on Internet censorship and various measures of surveillance of citizens. The PPTR supports freedom of expression on Internet.

Infrastructure Monopoly

The PPTR supports freedom of expression with regard to the to basic ideas, arguments and intellectual viewpoints are motivated by the concept of freedom of information. PPTR is impartial, independent and does not include any form of hierarchy and existed through the motive of “defending freedoms”. The censorship by government agencies will be rejected.