Meral Aksener

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has claimed civilians are receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat and the Central Anatolian province of Konya, daily Sözcü reported on Jan. 2.

Turkey will hold snap presidential and parliamentary elections in 2018, İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has said, adding that her party might support the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) if their candidate goes to the second round.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has said Turkey’s 10 percent election threshold is no concern for her newly founded movement, adding that she did not expect the lowering of the threshold.

A prominent Turkish nationalist politician and former minister announced on Wednesday she was forming a new party which could pose a significant challenge to President Tayyip Erdogan in elections due within two years, Reuters reported.

The long-awaited new political party set to be officially founded in October, led by former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmaker Meral Akşener, has held its first meeting in Istanbul with the participation of 1,500 supporters.
 

Meral Akşener, a former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmaker in the preparation stage for a new national political party, has announced that the party will be established by Oct. 15.

This long holiday and vacation period has given time for politicians to re-establish relations with their party base and listen to the masses. Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been very quiet for the past two weeks, while even President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opted to stay away from public speeches for at least a couple of days. 

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will work in the coming period to announce its nominee for the presidential election scheduled for 2019, CHP Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan has said, stressing that having a "variety of different candidates" in the opposition bloc should be seen as richness, rather than division.

The name of a new political party that is in its foundation stage may be named "Center Democrat Party," according to a former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmaker. 

Meral Akşener, a former deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament, stated on Aug.