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.

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,

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.

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