Oktay Vural

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has announced the newly appointed members of the party's General Administrative Board during its first gathering after the third ordinary congress held on June 24.

Turkish lawmakers have engaged in a noisy and almost physical dispute in parliament over remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on a top court ruling that led to the release of two journalists who were arrested in late 2015 over a news story on state-owned trucks allegedly carrying weapons to Syria.

Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP) deputy chairman Oktay Vural replaced his leader, Devlet Bahçeli, who is still recovering from a heart surgery, for the first time at the party's weekly group meeting at parliament on Jan. 26. 

MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli had a scheduled, preventative open-heart surgery on Jan. 20. 

Turkey?s main opposition party has called on chief public prosecutors to take legal action over ?a list of suicide bombing suspects? referred to by Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The second meeting in coalition-making process will take place July 14 between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), whose partnership for a government is seen as very likely. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an to congratulate him on the ruling Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) success in the country?s critical June 7 election, which resulted in the AKP winning 40 percent of the votes but laying aside a single party government option.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy group chair Oktay Vural has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an of conducting rallies for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), saying the president needs to preserve his impartiality. 

All three opposition parties in parliament have reacted to a U-turn by former intel chief Hakan Fidan, who was appointed back to his seat as head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T) after resigning to run as a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate in the June 7 elections.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Group Head Oktay Vural has vowed to sue his counterpart from the Democratic Peoples? Party (HDP), Pervin Buldan, after Buldan claimed that his niece was currently fighting with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK).

A student in the western Turkish city of ?zmir has been killed during a fight at his university, sparking a political debate in which Turkey's leading nationalist and Kurdish problem-focused parties have been involved.