Bahçeli

Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), delivered on May 29, 2015, one of his toughest speeches against President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. It is even a crime to mention those words. It is a speech full of incredible insults. 

A video has emerged of Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima howling while making the symbolic far-right Turkish nationalist ?grey wolf? hand gesture.

In the video, Lima appears with Turkish boxer Alptu? Öner, who supposedly taught her the gesture. 

Lima initially shouts ?bozkurt? (grey wolf in Turkish), then makes the gesture and howls.

Unsurprisingly, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has told Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu the MHP was not willing to take part in any coalition government formula, since they have maintained Turkey?s people cast the role of main opposition party for them in the June 7 parliamentary election.

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. 

I never took it seriously that the idealist youths of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) had ?changed? during their leader Devlet Bahçeli?s time. This group turned my years at university into a nightmare with their raids of my department. 

I was right. 

Last Saturday, a group of Korean tourists enjoying the historic beauty of Istanbul had unexpected trouble. Hundreds of angry protestors that were condemning China?s oppression of Muslim Uighurs, a Turkic people from the Xinjiang region, began harassing the tourists. Luckily the police intervened and no one got hurt, but the tourists were scared.

China is conducting systematic cruelty in East Turkistan with various methods, in complete violation of human rights. It does not respect freedom of belief (imposes a ban on fasting, etc.), forces abortion, and restricts the use of native tongues. It continues these practices, disregarding warnings and has even gone all the way to spiteful means of extrajudicial execution. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli have clashed over which of them has actually displayed solidarity with the Muslim Uighur minority in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said his party could form a coalition with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on condition that Turkey?s huge corruption cases, engulfing four former ministers and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s son Bilal Erdo?an, are reopened.

Senior executives of opposition parties have indicated unwillingness to respond positively to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s expected invitation to hold separate meetings with the leaders of the four parties that have entered parliament.