The Motherland party formed a brief coalition with the True Path Party (DYP), another center-right oriented party, that allowed their influence to return for a short period of time. Then, from July 1997 to November 1998, the ANAP was returned to the head of government with the leader Mesut Yılmaz during Turkey's first televised elections. However, the ANAP suffered one of the largest defeats during the April 1999 elections and became the fourth largest political party in Turkey with only 14% of the votes. Following these elections, ANAP received only 86 of 365 seats in the Parliament. During the 2002 elections, they got only 5.12% of the votes and no seats in Parliament. On 5 May 2007, it was announced that ANAP and True Path Party would merge to the Democratic Party (DP). However, this failed and ANAP announced that it would not run for the upcoming elections. From 2008 to 2009, its president was Salih Uzun. On 31 October 2009, it was merged to Democratic Party. On 11 September 2011, the party was re-established, with the same ideology as the first organization. Its current president is İbrahim Çelebi. Party's founders are: Turgut Özal, Cavit Şadi Pehlivanoğlu, Mehmet Keçeciler, Mesut Yılmaz, Cavit Kavak, Adnan Kahveci, Cemil Çiçek, Ali Ayağ, Mustafa Taşar, Kaya Erdem, Güneş Taner, Abdullah Tenekeci, Kazım Oksay, Recep Ercüment Konukman, Veysel Atasoy, Halil Şıvgın, Vehbi Dinçerler, Sudi Türel, Necat Eldem, Ali Tanrıyar, Bedrettin Doğancan Akyürek, İbrahim Özdemir, Abdulhalim Aras, Hüsnü Doğan, Leyla Yeniay Köseoğlu, Vural Arıkan, Bedrettin Dalan, Abdülhalim Aras, Nail Kul. Leaders The chief executive member of the party is called the Genel Başkan. He/She is elected by party delegates in biennial party congresses. The party had seven leaders since its foundation in 1983 until 2009: Turgut Özal (May 20, 1983 – October 31, 1989) Yıldırım Akbulut (November 16, 1989 – June 15, 1991) Mesut Yılmaz (June 15, 1991 – November 4, 2002) Ali Talip Özdemir (November 18, 2002 – October 3, 2003) Nesrin Nas (October 15, 2003 – March 21, 2005) Erkan Mumcu (April 2, 2005 – October 26, 2008) Salih Uzun (October 26, 2008 – October 31, 2009) (During periods between the resignation or incapacitation of a leader and the election of a new one, the central committee of the party collectively acted as leader.) Election results General elections References Further reading "Country Profile: Turkey." MSN Encarta External links Political parties in Turkey 2011 establishments