Meral Akşener
İYİ Party leader asks for national mourning for terror victims
İYİ (Good) Party leader Merak Akşener on Feb. 17 criticized the government for not declaring national mourning over illegal PKK's killing of 13 Turkish citizens in northern Iraq, while asking the reason for not being able to successfully rescue the abducted security personnel.
İYİ Party leader slams gov’t over economy
İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener on Feb. 9 warned the government over Turkey's deteriorating economy while blaming President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for ignoring this reality.
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İYİ Party leader welcomes postponing tradespeople loans but says not enough
İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener on Jan. 27 welcomed a decision by the government for postponing loan repayments of tradespeople as part of pandemic public assistance efforts while stating that the decision was not enough.
Good Party in favor of 5 percent election threshold
Good (İYİ) Party is in favor to decrease national election threshold from 10 percent to 5 percent, İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has said amid reports on a government-led study to amend the Election Law.
"We are in favor of 5 percent [election] threshold, but I have no idea what Mr. Bahçeli has in mind regarding the election threshold," Akşener told reporters in Ankara late Jan. 21,
Snap elections inevitable, says CHP leader
An early election is inevitable in Turkey, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said on Jan. 18, reiterating the opposition argument that citizens want snap elections due to their economic problems.
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Bahçeli renews his call on İYİ Party leader Akşener to return to MHP
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has renewed his call on İYİ (Good) Party chair Meral Akşener to break with the opposition Nation's Alliance and return to her "home," meaning the MHP.
"There is still time, our suggestion is still valid. Return home, this ordeal will end," Bahçeli said during the MHP'S provincial heads meeting on Dec. 24.
New budget adopted will put burden on citizens: İYİ Party leader
İYİ (Good) Party Chair Meral Akşener has criticized the 2021 budget that has been adopted in the parliament, saying that it would be a burden on the public.
She said she expected the government to have a budget-saving approach, but her expectation failed.
İYİ Party leader accuses gov’t of being late in introducing tight measures against COVID-19
İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener criticized the government for "failing" in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and said the country was late to take tight measures to curb the spread of the infection.
İYİ Party willing to continue Nation Alliance, Akşener says
İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has said they are in favor of continuing the Nation Alliance, noting the rumors about the government aiming to make changes in the electoral system.
İYİ Party leader calls on gov’t to respond against interception of Turkish ship by EU mission
İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has called on the government to take necessary steps against the interception of the Turkish merchant ship by an EU mission in the eastern Mediterranean.