| Native Name: | Uniunea Democrată a Tătarilor Turco-Musulmani din România Romanya Müslüman Tatar Türklerĭ Demokrat Bĭrlĭgĭ |
| Foundation: | 29 December 1989 |
| Leader: | Gelil Eserghep Bey |
| Ideology: | Dobrujan Tatar minority interests |
| National: | National Minorities Parliamentary Group |
| Seats1 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
| Seats2 Title: | Senate |
| Seats3 Title: | European Parliament |
| Country: | Romania |
| Slogan: | Bĭrlĭkte quwetĭmĭz (We are strong together) Tĭlde, fĭkĭrde, ĭște bĭrlĭk (Unity in language, thought and work) |
The Democratic Union of Turkic-Muslim Tatars of Romania is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Tatar community.
The party was formed on 29 December 1989 as the Turkish Muslim Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democrată Turcă Musulmană din România, UDTMR). On 12 April 1990 the new party split, with a breakaway faction forming the Ethnic Turkish Minority Union of Romania (UMETR), which later became the Democratic Turkish Union of Romania. The May 1990 general elections saw the party receive only 0.06% of the vote,[1] but it won a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law that allows for political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold. As a result of the split in April, the party adopted its present name on 23 July 1990.[2]
The party has contested every election between 1990 and 2012, winning a single seat on each occasion.
| Election | Chamber of Deputies | Senate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
| 1990 | 8,600 | 0.06 | 1 | 8,439 | 0.06 | 0 | |
| 1992 | 7,699 | 0.07 | 1 | ||||
| 1996 | 6,319 | 0.05 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| 2000 | 10,380 | 0.09 | 1 | 9,226 | 0.08 | 0 | |
| 2004 | 6,452 | 0.06 | 1 | ||||
| 2008 | 11,868 | 0.17 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| 2012 | 9,291 | 0.13 | 1 | – | – | – | |