Nationalist Movement Party facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Nationalist Movement Party
Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi
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| Abbreviation | MHP |
| President | Devlet Bahçeli |
| General Secretary | İsmet Büyükataman |
| Founder | Alparslan Türkeş |
| Founded | 9 February 1969 |
| Preceded by | Republican Villagers Nation Party |
| Headquarters | Ehlibeyt Mh. Ceyhun Atuf Kansu Cd No:128, 06105 Ankara, Turkey |
| Paramilitary wing | Grey Wolves (unofficial) |
| Membership (2018) | 489,239 |
| Ideology | Turkish ultranationalism Cultural nationalism Social conservatism National conservatism Right-wing populism Euroscepticism Pan-Turkism Turanism Turkish-Islamic synthesis |
| Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
| National affiliation | People's Alliance |
| Colours | Red, White (official) Ruby red (customary) |
| Slogan | Ülkenin Geleceğine Oy Ver ("Vote for the Country's Future") |
| Grand National Assembly |
49 / 600
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| Metropolitan municipalities |
2 / 30
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| District municipalities |
166 / 1,351
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| Provincial councillors |
174 / 1,251
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| Municipal Assemblies |
3,501 / 20,498
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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.
The Nationalist Movement Party has been called a neo-fascist party, and has been linked to some violent militias. They are cultural nationalists, and moved from supporting secularism to having a pro-Islamic stance. They are Eurosceptics, meaning they are against the European Union.
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-wing Kurdish nationalist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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Flags of political parties before the Turkish municipal elections in Şile, Istanbul, March 2009
