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ENG - The Nationalist Movement Party (also translated as 'Nationalist Action Party') (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP), is a nationalist, conservative political party in Turkey.
In the July 22, 2007 legislative elections, the party won 14.3% of the national vote and 71 seats in the parliament. In the previous legislative elections of Nov. 3, 2002 the party gained no seats as it had only won 8.3% of the national vote. Although the MHP has been labelled as an extremist nationalistic party by left-wing and Kurdish separatist groups, the present leadership by individuals such as Devlet Bahçeli and Mehmet Şandır has focused on defending unitary state and a Turkish identity encompassing all of Turkey's citizens in the face of demands for a federal state reflecting regional ethnic differences. It maintains consistent support among the electorate (especially in Central Anatolia), and has been on good terms with the Turkish Establishment due to its emphasis on a national identity that had been proposed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to replace tribal, sectarian, and ethnic allegiances that had been prevalent in Anatolia during the Ottoman Empire. - Have you voted in the poll Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi ? - By 1965, Alparslan Türkeş gained control of the conservative-rural Republican Villagers Nation Party (Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi, CKMP), and in a 1969 congress in Adana he confirmed his authoritarian rule and changed the name of the party to MHP. The party embraced Turkish nationalism imbued with a mythology that suggests all Turks share a common ancestry. Under the leadership of Alparslan Türkeş and funded by the CIA as part of its anti-Communist activities, militias connected to the party were responsible for assassinating many left-leaning people during the 1970s. The leader of the party's youth wing, the Grey Wolves, boasted that they had an intelligence organization superior to the state's.
Leader: Alparslan Türkeş - founder (1969-1997), Devlet Bahçeli (1997 - till today)
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