Republican People Party

Nationalist-conservative voters have been disappointed that values vital to them have been eroded by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), according to a candidate from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said he has two documents proving that the main opposition Republican People Party's (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu engaged in nepotism during his tenure as the head of the country's social security institution.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, one of his opponents in the presidential elections, of being “ignorant” of Turkey’s national anthem.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a great critic of the political tradition represented by the Republican People Party (CHP). For him, that tradition represents one-party rule, and governance imposed from above. He hit out at the party again after he was nominated by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to run for president.