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The ‘gray wolf’ threat to Erdogan and the AKP - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

The ‘gray wolf’ threat to Erdogan and the AKP

During the first weeks of the Gezi protests in June 2013, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan organized five major “Respect the National Will” rallies. I was watching one of them with a group of “ultranationalist” friends. They belong to the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP. Many of them had supported the Gezi protests. As we were watching Erdogan’s rally, all of a sudden Erdogan said, “I want to thank my brothers from the MHP.”

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