Virtue Party

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Fazilet Partisi

Virtue Party (Turkish: Fazilet Partisi) was a political party in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by Constitutional Court and then banned in 2001. After the party's ban, the party MPs founded two parties: reformist Justice and Development Party (AKP) and traditionalist Felicity Party (SP).

Founders of Fazilet Partisi were also active members of Milli Selamet Partisi, Saadet Partisi and Refah Partisi. The Virtue Party was the first party in this tradition to have genuine intra-party democracy. In the party congress in 2000, the candidate of reformist faction Abdullah Gul gained considerable support to challenge the traditionalist candidate and the party leader Recai Kutan.^{[citation needed]}

Merve Kavakçı, the female elected MP who was banned from swearing her oath in Parliament because she wore hijab, was a Virtue Party member.