People’s Alliance holds massive rallies in Istanbul, Ankara

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chair Devlet Bahçeli, both who are leading the People's Alliance, held massive rallies in Turkey's two largest metropolises Istanbul and Ankara over the weekend on the eve of next week's local elections, reiterating their call on people to vote "not only for local administrations, but also the future of the nation."
Erdoğan and Bahçeli, chairs of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and MHP respectively, held their last joint rally on March 24 on the eve of the municipal elections in Istanbul's Yenikapı Square with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people.