Togo
Action Committee for Renewal or CAR [Yawovi AGBOYIBO];
Democratic Convention of African Peoples or CDPA; Democratic Party
for Renewal or PDR; Juvento [Monsilia DJATO]; Movement of the
Believers of Peace and Equality or MOCEP; Pan-African Patriotic
Convergence or CPP; Rally for the Support for Development and
Democracy or RSDD [Harry OLYMPIO]; Rally of the Togolese People or
RPT [Faure GNASSINGBE]; Socialist Pact for Renewal or PSR; Union for
Democracy and Social Progress or UDPS [Gagou KOKOU]; Union of Forces
for a Change or UFC [Gilchrist OLYMPIO]
Tokelau
none
Tonga
Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement or THRDM [Uliti
UATA]; People's Democratic Party or PDP [Tesina FUKO]
Trinidad and Tobago
Congress of the People [Winston DOOKERAN];
Democratic Action Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in
Tobago); Democratic National Alliance or DNA [Gerald YETMING]
(coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND); Movement for National Development or
MND [Garvin NICHOLAS]; National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR
[Dr. Carson CHARLES]; People's National Movement or PNM [Patrick
MANNING]; United National Congress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]
Tunisia
Al-Tajdid Movement [Ahmed IBRAHIM]; Constitutional
Democratic Rally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique)
or RCD (official ruling party) [President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI];
Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties or FDTL [Mustapha Ben
JAFAAR]; Green Party for Progress or PVP [Mongi KHAMASSI]; Liberal
Social Party or PSL [Mondher THABET]; Movement of Socialist
Democrats or MDS [Ismail BOULAHYA]; Popular Unity Party or PUP
[Mohamed BOUCHIHA]; Progressive Democratic Party [Maya JERIBI];
Unionist Democratic Union or UDU [Ahmed INOUBLI]; note - the
Islamist party, Al Nahda (Renaissance), is outlawed
Turkey
Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party) or Anavatan [Erkan
MUMCU]; note - True Path Party or DYP has merged with the Motherland
Party; Democratic Party or DP [Husamettin CINDORUK]; Democratic Left
Party or DSP [Masum TURKER]; Democratic Society Party or DTP [Ahmet
TURK]; Felicity Party or SP [Numan KURTULMUS] (sometimes translated
as Contentment Party); Freedom and Solidarity Party or ODP [Hayri
KOZANOGLU]; Grand Unity Party or BBP; note - Mushin YAZICIOGLU,
former leader of the Grand Unity Party was killed in an March 2009
helicopter crash; Justice and Development Party or AKP [Recep Tayyip
ERDOGAN]; Nationalist Movement Party or MHP [Devlet BAHCELI]
(sometimes translated as Nationalist Action Party); People's Rise
Party (Halkin Yukselisi Partisi) or HYP [Yasar Nuri OZTURK];
Republican People's Party or CHP [Deniz BAYKAL]; Social Democratic
People's Party or SHP [Ugur CILASUN (acting)]; Young Party or GP
[Cem Cengiz UZAN]
note: the parties listed above are some of the more significant of
the 49 parties that Turkey had as of 31 January 2009
Turkmenistan
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Gurbanguly
BERDIMUHAMEDOW]
note: formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, small
opposition movements exist abroad; the three most prominent
opposition groups-in-exile are the National Democratic Movement of
Turkmenistan (NDMT), the Republican Party of Turkmenistan, and the
Watan (Fatherland) Party; the NDMT was led by former Foreign
Minister Boris SHIKHMURADOV until his arrest and imprisonment in the
wake of the 25 November 2002 attack on President NYYAZOW's motorcade
Turks and Caicos Islands
People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Floyd
SEYMOUR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Michael Eugene MISICK]
Tuvalu
there are no political parties but members of parliament
usually align themselves in informal groupings
Uganda
Conservative Party or CP [Ken LUKYAMUZI]; Democratic Party or
DP [Kizito SSEBAANA]; Forum for Democratic Change or FDC [Kizza
BESIGYE]; Justice Forum or JEEMA [Muhammad Kibirige MAYANJA];
National Resistance Movement or NRM [Yoweri MUSEVENI]; Peoples
Progressive Party or PPP [Bidandi SSALI]; Ugandan People's Congress
or UPC [Miria OBOTE]
note: a national referendum in July 2005 opened the way for Uganda's
transition to a multi-party political system