Right-wing politics

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Aug. 3 criticized social media posts asking for help from the world against wildfires across Turkey.

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Turkey is currently hosting nearly half a million Afghans on its soil and should be on alert against a new influx from Afghanistan in the coming period, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader has said.

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Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said his party's People's Alliance with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would continue as long as the people of Turkey want.

"We did not just form an electoral alliance," he told daily Türkgün in an interview on July 30.

The parties of the People's Alliance, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have agreed to lower the national election threshold from current 10 percent to 5 percent with plans to legislate it before the end of 2021.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli proposed a new system in which Turkish students can continue their higher education without the pressure of exams and suggested the abolition of university entrance exams.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli said that the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) must be closed forever after the Constitutional Court accepted an indictment for dissolving the political party.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on June 15 said that there is no longer a "bowing and incapable" Turkey in international relations.

Turkey does not "wait for somebody's words" while conducting its foreign affairs, Bahçeli said, speaking at the MHP's parliamentary group meeting.

An indictment prepared by a prosecutor for the closure of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) demands that 451 party members are barred from doing politics on charges of violating the constitution.

He has certainly made the headlines recently. In late March he gave an interview to the far-right weekly Sieci, in which he openly accused the prime minister, his nominal boss, of implementing policies more in tune with the opposition. Mateusz Morawiecki, he said, "is a skilled politician who knows how to convince the PiS leadership to run a policy contradictory to the 2014 agenda".

About 60 demonstrators, mostly Poles living in the Czech Republic, joined a protest against an abortion ban law and to support women's rights in Poland, in Prague, Czech Republic, 18 January 2018. EPA-EFE/MARTIN DIVISEK