Bahçeli

The leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has commented on rumors of a second coup attempt after the July 15 putsch, believed to have been masterminded by followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, vowing to "bury further coup plotters." 

Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said the ongoing prosecutions against supporters of the organization behind the July 15 coup attempt should initially target politicians and top-level civil servants, adding aiming at low-ranking officials and ignoring high-ranking ones would create victimization.

Very positive messages have been coming from Ankara's political circles for the past week. 

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) expelled a three-member emergency convention delegation from the party on Sept. 21, according to central disciplinary board member Halil Öztürk.

Turkey is not just a state of the United States, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said, amid a growing backlash against U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass after his statement on the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities across the country on terror charges

Party discipline is a big issue for some parties while in one, loyalty to the eternal leader is so strong and uncompromising that with just one sign, the chairperson might feel compelled not only to step down but also spell out who should take over his post at the leader's dictate... A post that has been transformed from chief executive of the country to a royal and loyal secretariat.

Turkey's primary nationalist opposition party leader has suggested that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been using an EU visa liberalization process with Turkey as a "carrot" to deploy her country's forces at Turkey's ?ncirlik Air Base.

Something odd is taking place on the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) flank. Opponents of party leader Devlet Bahçeli were in efforts to topple him at an extraordinary convention. The nationalist party's bylaws, however, do not allow elections at extraordinary party conventions.

An Ankara court has decided to halt the extraordinary party congress process of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) as a precaution, MHP deputy leader Oktay Öztürk announced on April 29.

Over the next few weeks, there might be a radical reformatting of Turkish politics. On the one hand, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is pressing hard to achieve a miraculous wind in parliament and probably in the country to blow him to a higher, super president position by making a cosmetic or overall amendment in the constitution.