Meral

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has reportedly reiterated that she will stand as a presidential candidate from her party, dismissing rumors that the opposition bloc was considering presenting former President Abdullah Gül as their joint candidate. 

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has vowed to run in Turkey’s early presidential election and to collect the 100,000 signatures necessary to be a candidate.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener said on March 24 the party had hit the road to establish justice, the superiority of law and democracy, adding that "This is why they are afraid of us."

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has said she “really wants” to form an alliance with the Felicity Party (SP) and the Democrat Party (DP), two small conservative parties with no seats in parliament, ahead of the 2019 elections.

Good (İYİ) Party leader Meral Akşener has adopted a cat named Cedric, who was the victim of sexual assault in the Aegean province of İzmir.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has testified for a prosecutor after she claimed early January that civilians in two Turkish cities were receiving weapons training in militia camps.

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Mahir Ünal has responded to İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener’s claims that civilians were receiving weapons trainings in camps, calling Akşener a “warmonger.”

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has claimed civilians are receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat and the Central Anatolian province of Konya, daily Sözcü reported on Jan. 2.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has said Turkey’s 10 percent election threshold is no concern for her newly founded movement, adding that she did not expect the lowering of the threshold.

The long-awaited new political party set to be officially founded in October, led by former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmaker Meral Akşener, has held its first meeting in Istanbul with the participation of 1,500 supporters.