Free Cause Party

The six-party Nation Alliance has met to discuss the strategy they will follow for the second round of the presidential polls in which Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is running as their joint candidate.

Sinan Oğan from the Ata Alliance who has received five percent of votes in the first round of the presidential elections says he will make his decision on who to support in the run-off vote in a few days.

The unofficial results of the parliamentary election on May 14 have revealed that the People's Alliance led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) garnered 321 lawmakers as the opposition Nation Alliance remained at 213.

Sinan Oğan, who entered the election as a non-partisan presidential candidate from Ata Alliance, has emerged as a game changer in the landmark May 14 polls, as he surprisingly took around 5 percent of the vote and stopped his rivals from winning outright.

The unofficial results of the parliamentary election on May 14 showed that the People's Alliance - formed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the New Welfare Party (YRP) and the Great Union Party (BBP) - garnered the most lawmakers in the parliament

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli reacted against the critics for support of The Free Cause Party (Hüda Par) to People's Alliance and said the party has no links to the militant Islamist group Hizballah.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been holding talks with some political parties that want to be part of the People's Alliance or are willing to cooperate with the ruling party for the upcoming May 14 elections.

With nearly two months to go to the polls, the political parties have started to receive applications for those who want to run for the 600-seat parliament.

A razor's edge win for the constitutional amendments may not be President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's best. On the night of the referendum he looked frail and his untouchable army of advisers seemed more frightened than ever. As the OSCE report now makes official, the referendum on presidential powers is probably the most contested and tainted electoral process in recent Turkish history.

An outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant, who was one of assailants carrying out a rocket launcher attack on a police station in Turkey's eastern province of Erzurum in August 2015, has pleaded guilty to killing two local members of the Free Cause Party (HÜDA PAR) in 2014.