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The Social Democratic Populist Party (Turkish: Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti) was the name of a former Turkish left social-democratic party which resulted from the fusion in 1985 of the Social Democracy Party (Sosyal Demokrasi Partisi SODEP) of Erdal İnönü and the People’s Party of Aydın Güven Gürkan both founded in 1983 with the return to democracy after the military coup of 1980.After 1991 general elections SHP became the co partner of the coalition government and İnönü became the vice prime minister (Nov.20).