Nationalist Movement Party Extraordinary Congress

Meral Akşener, a former deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament, stated on Aug.

Koray Aydın has resigned from his position as a deputy of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and has signaled that he will join a new party set to be founded by Meral Akşener, a dissident former MHP member. 

Meral Akşener, an expelled dissident member of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) accelerated her efforts to form a new party as MHP lawmaker Koray Aydın is set to announce that he will join the new party.

"We are working on announcing the new party by late October," Akşener said, responding to reporters' questions on Aug. 20 at a ceremony she attended.

The new party to be formed under the leadership of Meral Akşener, a former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) member, will occupy the "national center" in Turkish politics, according to one of her colleagues, who announced that the new party will be formed in October and will launch from Samsun, the city where the Turkish War of Independence began in 1919.

The new party to be formed under the leadership of Meral Akşener, a former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) member, will occupy the "national center" in Turkish politics, according to one of her aides, who announced that the new party will be formed in October and will launch from Samsun, the city where the Turkish War of Independence began in 1919.

Cihan Paçacı is an ex-economy bureaucrat. He took on important tasks at the True Path Party (DYP) and later moved to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). He is currently putting up a struggle alongside Meral Akşener.

I asked Paçacı questions about the new party they will form. Here's what he said:

When will it be established? 

Two expelled dissident members of the Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP), Ümit Özdağ and Yusuf Halaçoğlu, have said they have launched efforts for the formation of a new political party.

"There will be some surprise names in the party," they said on July 4.

Meral Akşener, an expelled dissident member and former leadership candidate of the Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP), has said she is no longer considering her candidacy for the party leadership, news website Habererk has reported.

Akşener made her comments on July 3 in the Turkish capital Ankara just before attending the wedding ceremony of daily Yeniçağ columnist Servet Avcı.

A group of dissidents from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has begun mulling over establishing a new political party in the coming months after a local court nixed their plans to change party leadership through an extraordinary convention.   

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli will need justice as well, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said in response to Bahçeli's criticism of the former's march to Istanbul in protest of a CHP lawmaker's arrest.