The Nationalist Movement Party (sometimes called Nationalist Action Party; Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a political party in Turkey.
The MHP was founded on 9 February 1969 by Alparslan Türkeş. Their most successful performance in an election was in 1999, where they received 5,606,634 votes and won 129 out of 550 seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In the last election, they received 5,599,600 votes and won 40 out of 550 seats.
Their slogan is: Ülkenin Geleceğine Oy Ver (meaning "Vote for the country's future").
The MHP refuses to have any form of dialogue with the left-wingKurdish nationalist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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↑Jacoby, Tim (2012). Fascism, Civility and the Crisis of the Turkish State. Routledge. p. 112. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)