Pan-Turkism

The Grey Wolves are a far-right political movement, nationalists, malicious, and Islamists

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.

It was around 2014, at one of the last receptions of Abdullah Gül toward the end of his presidential term at the Çankaya Palace in Ankara, when it was still Turkey's presidential palace. A group of reporters had surrounded a minister or top bureaucrat to take their chances to find a bit of information.

An Ankara court has decided to halt the extraordinary party congress process of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) as a precaution, MHP deputy leader Oktay Öztürk announced on April 29.

Turkey celebrated National Sovereignty and Children's Day on April 23 along with the 96th anniversary of the first season of Grand National Assembly.

Over the next few weeks, there might be a radical reformatting of Turkish politics. On the one hand, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is pressing hard to achieve a miraculous wind in parliament and probably in the country to blow him to a higher, super president position by making a cosmetic or overall amendment in the constitution. 

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has slammed the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) after the latter backed the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) move to lift HDP deputies' immunities, saying it had abandoned its status as an independent party and evolved into an "AKP commission."

A new charter is what Turkey needs, not an "elected despot," the leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, has said, warning against shifting to a presidential system. 

A meeting between Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Jan. 4 ended with a consensus to work on a new constitution, while the latter clearly voiced his party's firm objection to a transition into a presidential system.

Polls got underway on April 26 in energy-rich Kazakhstan for a ballot almost certain to re-elect 74-year-old strongman incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
 
Voting at over 9,000 polling stations across the country began at 0100 GMT and will continue until 1400 GMT, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).