How will YENİ Party reach young voters? ‘They will be the key architects of change’

About 6.5 million young people could vote for the first time if Turkey’s next election takes place in 2028, according to estimates cited from several polling and research firms. That group would account for roughly 9 percent of the expected 71.6 million voters.

The article presents YENİ Party as a new political force trying to turn that generation into its base. The party emerged after what the article describes as a May 21, 2026 court ruling that reinstated Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and his team at the Republican People’s Party. It says innovative figures subsequently left the CHP and founded YENİ Party.

Cem Aydın, who leads the party’s youth wing, said young people wanted a pluralistic politics centered on change. He argued that awareness of YENİ Party was becoming interest as it took more participatory and bold political steps.

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We have abolished the caste system in politics.

“We have abolished the caste system in politics,” Aydın said, adding that young people’s central grievance was the unjust system they faced. He said the party wanted democratic young people across Turkey to directly shape a new generation of politics.

Aydın promised measures aimed at students, women, young people and cooperatives. He said YENİ Party would address students’ financial difficulties, raise KYK scholarships to at least the level of a quarter gold coin, and provide financial support to promote fair competition. He also said the party wanted to build a Turkey where young people in every province, from Edirne to Hakkari, would not be forced to migrate.

Özgür Çelik said YENİ Party was founded on July 24, 2026, and had surpassed 500,000 members since then. He said young people formed one of the groups showing the strongest response to the party. Çelik added that young people could not be won over by financial promises alone. “There is a generation that is open to the world but loves its country deeply and wants its country freed from tension and pressure,” he said. “Young people do not trust politics or politicians.”

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There is a generation that is open to the world but loves its country deeply and wants its country freed from tension and pressure. Young people do not trust politics or politicians.