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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Can a new party challenge Turkey’s ruling AKP? - MURAT YETKİN

Can a new party challenge Turkey’s ruling AKP?

Meral Akşener, a former deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament, stated on Aug. 22 that she has officially started the process of establishing a new party, in a bid to build an alternative to President Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti). She made the statement in a ceremony to welcome Koray Aydın, a former deputy chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) who decided to join Akşener’s movement.

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