Nationalist Movement Party

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been facing difficulties in gathering enough deputies to conduct its legislative work in Parliament, mainly due to the reluctance of 71 MPs who will not run for reelection in June next year.  

The leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has chastised the government for its "foreign policy failures," arguing that both the president and prime minister are so obsessed with toppling the Syrian president that they can portray all outlawed groups in the region as innocent “love butterflies.”

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader has interpreted recent developments in the peace process as a signal indicating the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) intention to grant a “political amnesty” to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Four Turkish parliamentarians will attend a seminary on fundamental rights and protecting LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people from discrimination organized by the European Parliament in Albania’s capital Tirana on Nov. 20-21.

An apology voiced for the 1938 massacre in Dersim by a deputy chair of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) looks set to lead to more internal turmoil within the party, with one of its hardline deputies complaining that Deputy Chair Sezgin Tanrıkulu’s statement resembled the words of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

Following her resignation from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Emine Ülker Tarhan has founded a new political party.

The move comes two weeks after resigning from the CHP after severely criticizing the party's policies, which she claimed were “detached” from the people and not conducive to it coming to power.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed Professor Yekta Saraç as new head of Turkey’s Higher Education Board (YÖK) on Nov. 12.

Saraç, who was the acting head of YÖK after former head Gökhan Çetinsaya was removed from his post, was appointed as the new head of YÖK by President Erdoğan.

The felling of around 6,000 olive trees near the Aegean for the construction of a coal power plant stems from the government’s unprincipled economic policies, which favor the interests of companies that support it over those of Turkish citizens, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader has argued.

Syrian air missile defense systems have locked onto Turkish military aircrafts almost 400 times this year, as compared to only once in 2012, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has disclosed.

Turkey’s defense spending stood at 29.4 billion Turkish Liras ($13.2 billion) this year, Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz said on Nov. 2, in response to a parliamentary question from a deputy of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).