the party. Greens maintained local branches and initiatives in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Tekirdağ, and Antalya. Greens were known as the Greens of Turkey () prior to the founding of the party. The party held its first general congress on 6 June 2010. In November 2012, it merged with the Equality and Democracy Party to form the Greens and the Left Party of the Future, YSGP for short. The party is one of the participants in the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a political initiative instrumental in founding the Peoples' Democratic Party in 2012. The Greens, along with feminists, left YSGP en masse in 2016, citing its lack of democratic decision making practices. After the splitting, Yeşil Siyaset Meclisi was founded with the idea of founding a green party again one day. After 4 years of preparation, Yeşiller Partisi was founded on 21 September 2020 again with 110 founding members whom 55 of them are women and 55 of them are men. In 2020 the Greens submitted documents to the Ministry of the Interior to register their status as a political party, so their name could be written on ballot papers. In 2021 the Greens filed a lawsuit against the ministry over the delay in providing the receipt stipulated in the Political Parties Law. In February 2023 the Ankara 8th Administrative Court ruled that the Interior Ministry must issue the receipt. See also Air pollution in Turkey Radical Democratic Union References Liberal parties in Turkey Green liberalism Green parties in Asia Green parties in Europe Environmental organizations based in Turkey Secularism in Turkey Political parties established in 2020 2020 establishments in Turkey