THE RESTRICTIVE IMPACT OF PARTY IDEOLOGY ON PARTY STRATEGY: TURKEY’S RADICAL RIGHT THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT PARTY AFTER JUNE 2015 ELECTIONS

Öz

Nationalist Action Party (MHP) embraces nativist ideology; thereby, representing radicalright

politics in Turkey. The party’s attitudes during the negotiations after the June 2015

parliamentary elections come within the purview of this article. The article reached to

the conclusion that the party’s ideology acted as a restrictive factor hampering political

efforts to form a coalition government. Contrary to the argument that MHP has always

been a political party defending established system, this article suggests that the MHP

turned into an anti-political establishment party after June 2015 parliamentary elections

due to the party’s radical right ideology based on a strong belief in nativism.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Radical Right,Nationalist Action Party,Party ideology,Party strategy

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